sledgehammer
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Here's a link to the Nature article.
ETA | Quote | | The mean velocity of -57.16 kms-1 is measured relative to the Solar System barycenter; compared to the local velocity dispersion of ~30 kms-1, this Galactic velocity suggests that Kepler-11 is a member of the thick disk of the Milky Way. |
Here's a non-paywalled .pdf of Supplementary Data on the Kepler-11 system that might help.
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