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Fwd: OT: Maybe ? 1.4 million MPH

To: Hoffman Jennifer <jhoffman@astron.berkeley.edu>,
Subject: Fwd: OT: Maybe ? 1.4 million MPH
From: Wester Potter <wester6935@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:50:38 -0700
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

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> 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 ?     :-)
>
> ===========================================================
>
> 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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