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A collision between the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds 2×108 years ago

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

M. Fujimoto  and
T. Murai
M. Fujimoto
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464
T. Murai
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464

Abstract

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A number of orbits are obtained for the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) revolving around a model Galaxy with a massive halo. It is suggested that the SMC approached the LMC as close as 3 to 7 kpc about 200 million years ago, if these clouds have been in a binary state for the past 1010 years, and the Magellanic Stream (MS) is due to the gravitational interaction among the triple system of the Galaxy, LMC, and SMC.

Type
PART III: Dynamics and Evolution
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 106: The Milky Way Galaxy , 1985 , pp. 471 - 476
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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