Re: MILKY WAY GALAXY CANNIBALIZES SAGITTARIUS

Heh , astrologers better start redoing thier calculations . Because
saggitarius will probably have less "influence" in the future.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Milky Way Galaxy Cannibalizes Sagittarius
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> Yahoo! News
> Wednesday, September 24, 2003 
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> Washington (Reuters) - Our Milky Way galaxy is gobbling
> up its galactic neighbor, Sagittarius, and on Wednesday,
> scientists offered documentary proof of this continuing
> cosmic cannibalism. 
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> [Caption]  Wed Sep 24, 3:29 PM ET 
> Our Milky Way galaxy (center/blue) is gobbling up its
> galactic neighbor, Sagittarius, (red trail, from left to
> right) and on September 24, 2003, scientists offered
> documentary proof of this continuing cosmic cannibalism.
> On its way to oblivion, the dwarf Sagittarius -- which is
> about 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way -- is
> getting stretched, torn apart and ultimately eaten,
> scientists at the University of Virginia and the
> University of Massachusetts reported. REUTERS/Handout  
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> View picture here: 
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030924/170/5dhma.html
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> Astronomers have mapped the Sagittarius galaxy to show in
> detail how its debris wrap around and pass through the
> Milky Way, which contains Earth. 
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> On its way to oblivion, the dwarf Sagittarius -- which is
> about 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way -- is
> getting stretched, torn apart and ultimately eaten,
> scientists at the University of Virginia and the
> University of Massachusetts reported. 
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> "It's clear who's the bully in the interaction," Steven
> Majewski of the University of Virginia, lead author of
> the report, said in a statement. 
> 
> The study will be published in the Dec. 20 issue of the
> Astrophysical Journal. 
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> The act of cannibalism had been obscured by stars and
> cosmic dust, but was revealed when astronomers looked for
> infrared radiation coming from stars known as M giants,
> which are common in Sagittarius but rare in the outer
> reaches of the Milky Way. 
> 
> By focusing on these stars, the scientists said they were
> able to capture the totality of the Milky Way's meal, in
> a vision that makes it appear that our galaxy is slurping
> the stars of Sagittarius as if they were a stellar strand
> of spaghetti. 
> 
> Before this work, astronomers had detected only a few
> scattered pieces of the disrupted Sagittarius dwarf. Even
> the existence of Sagittarius was unknown until the heart
> of our nearest satellite galaxy was discovered in 1994. 
> 
> Source - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030924/170/5dhma.html
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> The ultimate in white male Western hegemony. Clearly this
> abuse of our neighbors cannot be allowed to continue.
> Send in the United Nations peace keepers, right now!
>   /sarcasm
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> Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by anymouse
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> > which is about 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way
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> This is an obvious typo. It must be 1/10,000th the mass, 
> or else it would be eating us.
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> Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by GhostofWCooper 
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> Can someone please explain to me how in the world we can 
> take pictures of our galaxy with us in it and know that 
> we are a part of it?
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> Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by Aggie Mama 
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> > Our Milky Way galaxy is gobbling up its galactic 
> > neighbor,
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> Turn-about is fair play. I have a galactic neighbor who 
> is up to 450 lbs from gobbling Milky Ways.
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> Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by TruthShallSetYouFree
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> Does that mean that everybody born under the sign of the 
> Sagittarius will "disappear".... Or be gobbled up by a 
> giant milky way bar?
>  ( 8 > 0>
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> Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by Lion in Winter
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> > the dwarf Sagittarius -- which is about 10,000 times 
> > the mass of the Milky Way
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> Should be 1/10,000th
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> SO9
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> Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by Servant of the 9
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> I don't know. But Almond Joying this thread immensely. It 
> is Mounds of fun.
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> Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by TruthShallSetYouFree 
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> That's the new Mobile Fox MiniCam, launched by the 
> Chinese several years ago. The pics are beamed back from 
> the camera in Andromeda.
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> Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by jammer 
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> I caught that one too. Doesn't Rueter have any editors to 
> catch this stuff??
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> Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by Flying Circus
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> I snickered when I read your post! hahaha
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> Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by Lion in Winter 
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> There's a mirror hanging on Andromeda!
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> Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by vger 
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> No typo, it is about 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way. 
> It's like the mouse eating the boa constrictor, our tiny Milky Way 
> is nibbling away at the huge, but diffuse, Sagittarius galaxy.
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> Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by Rudder 
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