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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:37 PM 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 ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list