[olug] OT Galaxy Collision

David Loyall david.loyall at gmail.com
Sat Sep 25 04:13:23 UTC 2004


Ha, I noticed that too, before I read your post.  I tried to give them
some credit though:  Maybe the camera pans to follow the center of
mass... ;)
(Or, now that I think about it, maybe stationary galaxy cluster has
significantly more mass..)

--DL

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:55:38 -0500, Carl Lundstedt
<clundst at unlserve.unl.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 09:34, Sean Edwards wrote:
> > Everybody is all excited about the artist
> > representation of a galaxy collision:
> >
> > http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMSKV9DFZD_FeatureWeek_1.html
> Not to be a geek or anything, but that collision does not appear to
> conserve momentum.
> (?)
> Maybe its a feet -> meters thing...
> --
> Carl Lundstedt <clundst at unlserve.unl.edu>
> University of Nebraska
> 
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