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Old 08-09-2008, 04:31 PM
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Paddy (Patrick)
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Thanks for pointing out the implications Trevor. It seems a truly amazing feat to measure this, especially getting the data on the orbits of stars around galactic centre! I love the animation of the movements of the stars around Sag A * which is at

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghezgroup...itsMovie.shtml

Can't quite get my head around a star moving at 8000 km per second!
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