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re: that much movement in 10 years ..

Well, there's enough data to work it out. We know how far away Sagittarius A (the galactic centre) is. There's a scalebar for angular distance. The rest is simple trigonometry in the limit of small angles.

No time to work it out now but here's a teaser for you - what are the tidal forces like for one of those bodies in a highly elliptical orbit? It would make Niven's "Neutron Star" look feeble!

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