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Old 22-05-2014, 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Pinwheel View Post
Here's a hairy one!

Our solar system star is called the "Sun" & our planets are all named too! But what is our own Galaxy called & what's it's NGC or Messier number. I call dibs if nobody thought of this... NGC0000 or M00! We can't call it the Milky way Galaxy because every galaxy seen would have a milky way.
Start by listing it on Wikipedia M00, type Galaxy, common name Milkyway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...essier_objects
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