Talk:Large Magellanic Cloud
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Will someone please check my figures and math on the apparent size of the LMC? —ZorkFox 02:02, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] radius
The radius of the LMC was listed as 20,000 - 50,000. I changed that to 10,000 ly, a much more realistic estemate. I am sure that the old value is incorrect. I also thinks that 'radius' and 'diameter' are treated as the same in most galaxy articles, which is of course incorrect. Radius is half a diameter! DaMatriX 20:18, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
- The Radius figure in the info box is indeed confusing. It currently says "Radius - 35,200 ly (tidal)", now I don't know what "tidal" means (if anything), but this seems like a crazy size, it would therefore have a diameter of 70,400 LYs, that's nearly as big as the Milky Way! How can this be an accurate estimate for "Dwarf Galaxy"?
- Also it says in the opening paragraph that LMC is about 1/20 the diameter of the Milky Way "It has about 1/20 the diameter of our galaxy", so that is about 5,000 LYs in diameter and 2,500 LYs in Radius (which sounds like a much more reasonable estimate).
- So does anyone know the actual size? Or whether any of these figures are correct? If nobody responds I'll just put in the Radius figure of 2,500 LYs which seems to be closest to the truth.--Hibernian 05:50, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Could someone add a section about the future of this galaxy?
As I understand it, the Milky Way is tearing up all of its satellites by absorbing their stars. Could someone confirm that and mention it in the articles.--Will 05:55, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
