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Old 11-November-2007, 08:55 AM
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Yes, even I noticed this. You can not accurately describe the solar systems structure as a spiral... It is spiral only in as far as its round. The Galaxy yes. When spiral is used to describe Galaxies it is referring to the apparent arms and the decathlon wheal structure.
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