These are really interesting presentations, Jay. They show what a wild universe it is. Thanks, Joe --- On Tue, 11/23/10, Jay Eads <jayleads@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Jay Eads <jayleads@gmail.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] New M31 (Andromeda) Model To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 10:34 PM Found at this link http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/11/23/andromeda-born-out... new study by some French astronomers show that Andromeda went through a major merger about 6 billion years ago. The first link shows their model of this collision.The second part of the study (see this second link http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Major_Collision_In_Local_Galaxy_Cluster_Si...) shows that the Magellanic galaxies may actually have formed from the tidal tails that formed when M31 was formed.

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