Apparently it depends on which of the two attractors is the one where
we end up.
There may not be a reason for a return run. LOL!
Wes
Begin forwarded message:
> From: john.szalay@att.net
> Date: January 12, 2006 8:08:00 AM MST
> To: land-speed@autox.team.net (landspeed)
> Subject: OT: Maybe ? 1.4 million MPH
> Reply-To: john.szalay@att.net
>
> Now how do we clock the return run ? :-)
>
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>
> UH clocks Milky way's 1.4M speed
>
> HILO HI; The Milky Way galaxy, which includes Earth and the sun, is
> being
> pulled toward an enormous mass of galaxies a half-billion light-years
> away,
> University of Hawaii astronomers have confirmed with X-ray studies.
> The result is the entire Milky Way is moving through space at 1.4
> million mph.
> Astronomers have known for decades that the Milky Way was being pulled
> by something really big called "the Great Attractor."
> But they could not see this hypothetical attractor because they would
> have
> to look through the Milky Way to do so. Visible light just could not
> get
> through the dusty, cluttered galaxy.
> Now UH astronomers Dale Kocevski, Harald Eberling, and R. Brent Tully,
> along with UH alumnus Chris Mullis, have seen through the galaxy
> looking
> at X-rays that pass through space dust the way they pass through human
> flesh.
> Kocevski announced their work Tuesday at the American Astronomical
> Society i
> n Washington, D.C.
> What they found was a "significant concentration of galaxies" pulling
> the
> Milky Way, 500 million light-years from Earth, four times the distance
> of
> the Great Attractor.
> The discovery of two attractors instead of one was good news for
> understanding
> the density of the universe. One attractor would have implied too much
> matter in
> the universe, the UH Institute for Astronomy said. Two widely spaced
> attractors
> imply a better distribution of matter, they said.
>
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