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{{short description|Catalogue of star systems}}
The '''Catalog of Nearby Habitable Systems''' (HabCat) is a catalogue of [[star system]]s which conceivably have [[Planetary habitability|habitable planet]]s. The list was developed by scientists [[Jill Tarter]] and [[Margaret Turnbull]] under the auspices of [[Project Phoenix (SETI)|Project Phoenix]], a part of [[SETI]].

The list was based upon the [[Hipparcos Catalogue]] (which has 118,218 stars) by filtering on a wide range of star system features. The current list contains 17,129 "HabStars".

==External links==
*[https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210675 Target Selection for SETI: 1. A Catalog of Nearby Habitable Stellar Systems], Turnbull, Tarter, submitted 31 Oct 2002 (last accessed 19 Jan 2010)
*[http://lasp.colorado.edu/education/journalists/extrasolar_planets_ws/Papers/HabCat-2.pdf Target selection for SETI. II. Tycho-2 dwarfs, old open clusters, and the nearest 100 stars] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821134227/http://lasp.colorado.edu/education/journalists/extrasolar_planets_ws/Papers/HabCat-2.pdf |date=2008-08-21 }}, by Turnbull and Tarter, (last accessed 19 Jan 2010)
*[http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/newworlds/HabStars.html HabStars] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031004020000/http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/newworlds/HabStars.html |date=2003-10-04 }} - an article on the [[NASA]] website

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[[Category:Astronomical catalogues of stars]]
[[Category:Search for extraterrestrial intelligence]]
[[Category:Exoplanet catalogues]]


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