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Old 29-April-2005, 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Tensor
I told you I was going to have a #-o moment. Oh, well, thanks Grey and Nergal. Besides, I did say about. ops:
To be fair, I think even the best estimates of the distance to the LMC have an error of 5% or so, and if you take into account that using different distance methods give a spread of results, it would be hard to more confident than 10%. So what's a couple thousand light years?