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Compound of five small stellated dodecahedra

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Compound of five small stellated dodecahedra
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This uniform polyhedron compound is a composition of 5 small stellated dodecahedra, in the same arrangement as in the compound of 5 icosahedra.

Compound of five small stellated dodecahedra
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TypeUniform compound
IndexUC51
Polyhedra5 small stellated dodecahedra
Faces60 pentagrams
Edges150
Vertices60
Symmetry groupicosahedral (Ih)
Subgroup restricting to one constituentpyritohedral (Th)

It is one of only five polyhedral compounds (along with the compound of six tetrahedra, the compound of two great dodecahedra, the compound of five great dodecahedra, and the compound of two small stellated dodecahedra) which is vertex-transitive and face-transitive but not edge-transitive.

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References

  • Skilling, John (1976), "Uniform Compounds of Uniform Polyhedra", Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 79 (3): 447–457, doi:10.1017/S0305004100052440, MR 0397554.


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