Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!barmar From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: distance and velocity Message-ID: <329@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 03:01:43 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.329 Posted: Wed Nov 6 03:01:43 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 02:07:09 EST References: <847@nmtvax.UUCP> <228@astroatc.UUCP> Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Distribution: na Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 12 In article <228@astroatc.UUCP> johnw@astroatc.UUCP (John F. Wardale) writes: > c: How far away is Andromada? I just checked in an encyclopedia (the on-line encyclopedia available on Dow Jones News/Retrieval). The Andromeda galaxy is 2.2 million light years away. I was slightly surprised that the distance is only an order of magnitude larger than the circumference of the Milky Way (I was expecting a distance on the order of 100 million light years. -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar