[meteorite-list] Will this change mereorite research

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:14:01 -0500
Message-ID: <0b3b01c7b882$5be6cc60$3d53e146_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi, JWB, List,

    You can dial back some of the boggle. While it is
true that stars from the disrupted Sagittarius Dwarf
Spherical Galaxy are streaming through the plane of
the Milky Way at a right angle to the Galactic Plane,
our little Sun is not one of them.

    The SDG stars are traveling at more or less right
angles (OK, about 70 degrees) to the path of the Sun.
The SDG stars are just like cars trying to fly through
a cross-street intersection on a busy highway at high
speed without even stopping. Fortunately, space is
roomy enough... I hope.

    The notion that We're From There is the irrational
concoction of a musician named M. P. Erwin:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=1207&i=2

    If you want to check the facts that lead me to suggest
Erwin is a Certified Grade AAA Whacko, look up what's
called the Solar Apex. That's the point in the sky that the
Sun is "traveling toward."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_apex

    If the Sun were moving with the SDG stars, it would be
pointing toward the Galactic Pole (90 degrees South), but
instead, it's pointing toward galactic coordinates 56.24?
longitude, 22.54? latitude, as it wobbles its way around
the disc of the Milky Way.

    Reality is interesting enough. The Sagittarius Dwarf
Galaxy (the elliptical or spheroidal, not the irregular one)
was discovered in 1994. The Milky Way is in the process
of Eating It. Using the 2Mass Sky Survey, it was imaged
in 2003 in great detail just by tracking the M Giant stars
common in the older SDG and rare in the Milky Way. See:
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~mfs4n/sgr/

    On that webpage, there is a nice 4.5 Mb movie of the
interaction of the two galaxies, worth looking at (if you've
got broadband or patience).


Sterling K. Webb
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Will this change mereorite research


By now you have all heard that our solar system is actually a part of
the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy, not the Milky way. Could it lend
credence to the wingstars? Could meteorites from two different
galaxies have differences? This new data is mind boggling! I have
read back in 1961 that the Milky way had collided with another galaxy
but no one knew that it was still here! What do you all think about
this new info? And how will it affect meteorite research? Jim B

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