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COMPOSITION OF THE ORION NEBULA

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Conclusions<br />

• Determined elemental abundances in the<br />

Orion Nebula from collisionally excited<br />

spectral lines<br />

• Found consistent abundances with FOS<br />

spectra<br />

– Oxygen consistent with literature<br />

– Carbon within reasonable limits<br />

• Not able to determine temperatures precisely<br />

enough with HST FOS

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