Re: Anybody See Any Holes in this Argument?

Hi Gordon, you wrote:

>I don't see any holes in your argument, but I think some of your figures
>are not accurate. According to an elementary astronomy text that I have
>that was published in 1955, the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy is 80,000
>light years. (It is the Large Magellanic cloud that is 30,000 light years
>in diameter.) Both the Magellanic clouds are much closer to us than the
>Andromeda galaxy, which is 1,500,000 light years away.

Thanks to yours and other inputs I received, I revised that to read as follows:

The Milky Way is roughly 100,000 light years in diameter. Andromeda is our
closest neighboring major galaxy over 2 million light years away. The
Large Magellanic Cloud is a smaller galaxy much closer to our own Milky
Way, and is visible in the Southern Hemisphere.

Thanks guys!

~Dick Fischer
Received on Sun Nov 28 23:51:17 2004