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The "Object" wasn't an asteroid. It was a cursor.

Three hundred and sixty-one.

[ \frac{361}{64} = \frac{19^2}{8^2} = \left(\frac{19}{8}\right)^2 ] 361/64

He remembered the name of the star system that had vanished from the charts three centuries ago. Corvi 564. The "Object" wasn't an asteroid

To the casual observer, the numbers were a catalog entry—three hundred and sixty-first discovery of the year, sixty-fourth orbital sector. But Elias knew the truth of the notation. The astronomers at the Institute had a dark joke: the numbers didn't represent a place, but a ratio. but a ratio.