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Astro-boffinry world rocked to its very core: Shock as Andromeda found to be not much bigger than Milky Way

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Re: If the mass is 800 vs 700...

Wrong. The escape velocity from a given body is sqrt(2GM/r), where M is the mass of the body you are trying to escape from, r is the distance from the centre of mass that you start at, and G is 6.67E-11. Density does not matter.

Tell me about it. I find it impossible to get away when annoying fat colleagues start talking shit to me. Doesn't matter whether they extremely dense, or quite bright but exceptionally annoying, so density is not important. I can also confirm that it is more difficult to achieve escape velocity from those buggers who invade your personal space and poison your air, proving that distance is important.

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