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Old 01-April-2008, 02:59 AM
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Ya, according to Keel, Sandage eventually caved in and accepted a higher HO value - but not completely. It is interesting that the metallicity-corrected Cepheid HO values are closer to Sandages.
Sandage seems to have split the difference. In the late 80's and early 90's he was advocating H0=50. Lately he finds H0=~62, so he's accepting a higher value, but still not where the HKP is at.
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