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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Compelling Mysteries (II)
- Message-ID: <Nov.11.18.33.39.1992.14629@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 23:33:40 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.151421.11274@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov10.203037.13332@sfu.ca> <1992Nov11.052908.22313@galois.mit.edu> <1992Nov11.140007.16660@ulrik.uio.no> <11NOV199211440994@csa2.lbl.gov>
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- sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
- >This suggests, at best, an in-between solution - bursters are associated
- >with our galaxy, but are uniformly distributed in a sphere. There are problems
- >building such models as well, but I can't remember the details off the top
- >of my head.
-
- Probably that we're off center. The sun is about 8 kpc (or at least
- that was the IAU standard value for a while, presumably not standardized
- by a platinum bar in Paris ;-) from the galactic center and to get a
- distribution of bursters to look isotropic to us its scale radius has to
- be really big.
-