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Pastimes : IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kinkblot who wrote (415)	4/17/2003 9:38:55 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 480

LOL-- I believe the snake making the left turn almost debunked the question of not worrying about getting hit with a flying snake. I believe he had to duck or start to protect himself. (I used the single frame forward arrow on Quick Time's screen panel) The Atlas of the Universe -- readily available to our "visitors" so they may point out where they are from.....nice diagrams too...(I like pictures) anzwers.org This part is interesting:(from The Universe within 50000 Light Years) The Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy This dwarf galaxy is the nearest galaxy to our own. However, it was only discovered as recently as 1994. It lies on the far side of the galaxy from us and is heavily obscured by the intervening gas and dust. It is approximately 78000 light years away and about 10000 light years in diameter. It is orbiting our galaxy in a period of about 1 billion years but it cannot be expected to last much longer, in a few hundred million years it will be ripped apart by our own galaxy. It contains at least ten million stars. It also lies in roughly the same position as the globular cluster M54 but whether this globular cluster is actually part of the dwarf galaxy is unclear. Galactic Cannibalism The Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy will probably not be the first galaxy that has been 'eaten' by our galaxy. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey for instance report that outside of the Galaxy there are huge clumps of stars that appear to be the remains of smaller galaxies that were ripped apart by the Milky Way more than a billion years ago. The distribution of these stars shows at least two clumps that are several thousand light years in size and more than 100 000 light years from the center of the Galaxy.