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From: KFL@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU ("Keith F. Lynch")
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Subject: Size of the Galaxy
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Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 22:37:45 EST
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    From: "Josh Knight"   <JOSH%YKTVMH.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu>

    As an aside, it is interesting to note that in the early part of this
    century, an incorrect accounting for interstellar absorption caused many
    astronomers to believe our galaxy was a small elliptical one, rather
    than the large spiral it really is.

  Actually, I think it was the other way around.  For a while it was
thought that this galaxy was unusually large.
								...Keith