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MOND Used to Predict Key Property in Andromeda's Satellites
February 14, 2013
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Using modified laws of gravity, researchers from Case Western Reserve University and The Weizmann Institute of Science closely predicted a key property--velocity dispersion--measured in faint, dwarf galaxies that are satellites of the nearby giant spiral galaxy Andromeda.
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