2 Scorpii [SEP] constellation
2 Scorpii
2 Scorpii (A Scorpii) is a double star in the southern zodiac constellation of Scorpius. The brighter component has an apparent visual magnitude of 4.69, which is bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, while the fainter star is of magnitude 6.98. The distance to this pair can be estimated from the annual parallax shift of , which places it roughly 500 light years away. It has a peculiar velocity of and is moving closer to the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of about −9
located in Wells Township in the northwestern corner of the county. The field contains bituminous coal. There are a few abandoned mines in the area, although acid mine drainage is not as much of an environmental problem in Fulton County as it is in adjacent Bedford and Huntingdon Counties.
Interesting geologic features within Fulton County include some of the following:
- The Meadow Grounds syncline west of McConnellsburg.
- A transpression structure is located on the east side of the Meadow Grounds syncline. This structure consists of a complex set