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The λ Orionis association has the photometric properties of a typical young cluster with an age of about 4×106 yr. Its distance is 400 ± 40 pc. Attention is drawn to the lack of a dense molecular cloud and associated infrared sources in this young grouping.
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Murdin et al. (1977) studied this question.
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