         mintaka is a star some 916 light years distant<ref name="kaler in the constellation orion. it has a bayer designation of delta orionis (Î´ ori) and a flamsteed designation of 34 orionis. the name mintaka comes from ÙÙØ·ÙØ© maná¹­aqa, which means "the belt" in arabic. together with alnitak (zeta orionis) and alnilam (epsilon orionis), the three stars make up the belt of orion, known by many names among ancient cultures. when orion is close to the meridian, mintaka is the right-most of the belt's stars as seen by an observer in the northern hemisphere facing south. ==system== mintaka is actually a multiple star at the western end of orion's belt, with a magnitude 7 star about 52 arcseconds away from the main component and an even fainter star in between. the main component itself is also double, consisting of a class b giant and a smaller but hotter class o. the stars orbit each other every 5.73 days. these two stars are both about 90,000 times as luminous as the sun with a
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