Answer the review: a name two stars answer to names neither, and NaN is not a proper motion

Three guards the matcher was missing, none of which changes a byte of the
regenerated data — the ETL re-run after them is identical — and all three
now have a test that fails without them.

A proper motion that is not a number poisoned every comparison rather than
one: NaN loses every `<` it appears in, so `cosine < minCosine` was false
for every star, each one reached the distance guard, and the last one in
catalogue order won — a confident wrong answer, order-dependent, where the
honest answer is "no match". The archive's own parser never produces one
(parseOptionalNumber maps a blank cell to undefined), but the matcher is
exported for offline re-cross-referencing and a caller reaching for bare
Number() is exactly the coercion the CSV helper documents as having caused
two prior bugs. An unusable motion now reads as no motion.

Normalizing a name strips the dot, so `Gl 55.2` and `Gl 552` — two stars
135 degrees apart — share one key, and the index kept whichever came last;
64 such groups exist in the catalogue, among them `Gl 84.1A`/`Gl 841A` and
`HD 96600` twice. A name that names two stars names neither, so ambiguous
keys are dropped and the query goes to the sky, where direction settles it.
No archive hostname lands on one today, which is why the data is unchanged.

And the cache is keyed by the whole request rather than the query alone,
here and in gaia.ts: fetchTextCached records only that some response
arrived, so an endpoint edit would have kept serving the old host's bytes —
the same silent staleness the query hash was added to close.

The tests now discriminate what the comments claim. Eight mutants, each
caught: judging only the published position, only the carried-back one,
judging each star on its worse epoch rather than its better, letting a
distance-rejected star claim best-so-far and shadow the true host behind
it, an unguarded proper motion, a last-wins name index, a fixed angular
tolerance instead of a transverse one, and no distance guard at all. The
GJ 887 test grew a decoy standing halfway along the star's own track: it is
nearer than Lacaille 9352 at the published position and nearer at the worse
of the two epochs, so it wins unless both epochs are tried and the better
one decides — the property the test's comment had been claiming untested.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jxMkwA2rbicdGxHosecYi
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@@ -35,10 +35,11 @@ const TAP_COLUMNS = [
const TAP_QUERY = `select+${TAP_COLUMNS}+from+ps+where+default_flag=1+order+by+pl_name&format=csv`;
const TAP_URL = `${TAP_BASE_URL}?query=${TAP_QUERY}`;
// The cache is keyed by the query it answers: a response cached before a column was added
// would otherwise keep serving rows without it, and a missing proper-motion cell reads as
// "does not move" — silently wrong, not visibly broken.
const CACHE_FILE = `exoplanet-archive-ps-${createHash('sha1').update(TAP_QUERY).digest('hex').slice(0, 8)}.csv`;
// The cache is keyed by the request it answers — endpoint included, since the cache records
// only that some response arrived: one cached before a column was added would otherwise keep
// serving rows without it, and a missing proper-motion cell reads as "does not move",
// silently wrong rather than visibly broken.
const CACHE_FILE = `exoplanet-archive-ps-${createHash('sha1').update(TAP_URL).digest('hex').slice(0, 8)}.csv`;
/**
* Downloads confirmed exoplanets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive (`Planetary Systems` TAP