The distance to Pleiades remains controversial. There is a simple way to resolve the dispute definitely by measuring the distance to one of its brightest members, Atlas, which is astrometric and spectroscopic binary.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0306475,
title = {The Distance to Pleiades},
author = {Bohdan Paczynski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0306475},
year = {2007}
}
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3 pages, latex, 1 figure, submitted to Acta Astronomica