2 Scorpii (A Scorpii) is a double star in the southern zodiacconstellation of Scorpius. The brighter component has an apparent visual magnitude of 4.69, which is bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, while the fainter star is of magnitude 6.98.[3] The distance to this pair can be estimated from the annual parallax shift of 6.49±0.51 mas,[2] which places it roughly 500 light years away. It has a peculiar velocity of 16.5±2.4 km/s and is moving closer to the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of about −9 km/s,[5] which will bring it to a perihelion distance of 450 ly (139 pc) in about 2.9 million years.[1] This is a probable (73% chance) member of the Lower Centaurus–Crux group of the nearby Scorpius–Centaurus association (Sco OB2), or else (27% chance) it is a member of the Gould's Belt.[10]
^ abHouk, Nancy; Smith-Moore, M. (1978), Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars, vol. 4, Ann Arbor: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Bibcode:1988mcts.book.....H.