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Old 26-June-2007, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by grant hutchison View Post
The claim that we're part of the Sagittarius Dwarf seems to originate with "Matthew Perkins Erwin ... researcher, technogeek, inventor, and recording artist", who evidently can't read his own references, and who stirs in an amazing quantity of technobabble on global warming, the galactic plane and the Mayan calendar. The signal-to-noise ratio on his blog (linked from the referenced site) is catastrophically low.
Not to mention that not a single result shows up for him on the ADS abstract server. Whoever he is, he's not a professional astronomer and has never published in a professional astronomical journal.
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