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Old February 4th 07, 01:37 AM posted to sci.physics.relativity,sci.astro
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Default Why are the 'Fixed Stars' so FIXED?


"Henri Wilson" HW@.... wrote in message ...
Sure, they're a long way from us...but there are a great many out there in our
galaxy and every object must be in orbit around a mass centre of some kind.

Most do not appear to have moved much in thousands of years.
Should we not expect to see more movement than we do?

...my question may be naive and the answer trivial... so please enlighten me.



http://reductionism.net.seanic.net/A...nardStar_3.GIF

Barnard's Star was at coordinates 17:57:48.23, +04:42:33.3 (equinox 2000.0) on June 27, 2005.

http://schmidling.com/barnard.htm
Take a long hard look and do the numbers, stop muttering uni****ation, you won't live long enough to see one of them move with binoculars.