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