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From: djb@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Snickers
Message-ID: <215@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Aug-83 08:44:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 22 08:44:17 1983
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Indeed, you are correct about "Snickers."  As I remember it was in
1978 that some astronomers discovered a collection of stars just outside
the confines of our galaxy.  Some studies and calculations confirmed that
it was a truly separate "cloud" very much like the Magellanic Clouds,
but considerably smaller.  After much deliberation, they named this new
member of our Local Group "Snickers" since "it is like the Milky Way, 
only peanuts."

And they say astronomers are a dull, humorless breed...

	David Bryant   Bell Labs   Columbus, OH   (614) 860-4516
	(cbosg!djb)