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Old September 21st 07, 07:43 AM posted to sci.astro,sci.physics.relativity
Paul Schlyter[_2_]
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Default Why are the 'Fixed Stars' so FIXED?

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George Dishman wrote:
"Henri Wilson" HW@.... wrote in message
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Sure, but there is no law that says stars can't
orbit a little faster or have slightly higher
eccentricity so your problem is explaining why
we _don't_ see such spikes. The answer of course
is that every sysytem we see only shows VDoppler,
never ADoppler.


You get 10/10 for stubborness.


Do the arithemetic and see for yourself.


Now you get 20/10 for stubbornness.... :-)

And you're absolutely right, of course!

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