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Old 24-June-2007, 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Noclevername View Post
Then why confuse things by naming them both Sagittarius?
It seems to be customary to name galaxies orbiting our own after the constellation they lie in: so we already had a bunch of local dwarfs with names like Leo I, Leo II, Fornax and Ursa Minor when the Sagittarius dwarf was discovered.

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