"The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are a pair of nearby dwarf galaxies once thought to have been in orbit around our galaxy for billions of years.
But that picture was shaken up in January 2007 when a team of astronomers announced new measurements of the pair's motion across the sky made by the Hubble Space Telescope. Those observations suggested that the two galaxies are moving too fast to be long-time satellites of the Milky Way and instead are falling into our galactic neighbourhood for the first time" Full article: <http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12652-milky-way-keeps-a-light-grip-on-speedy-neighbours.html> -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
