re: ELIPTICALS MUST ROTATE

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ER — 6/2/2006 12:57:44 AM (archived)

Globular clusters do not rotate. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong, please!) They are maintained by the Virial Theorem, the kinetic and potential energy of the individual stars orbiting in random orbits about the center of mass reaches an equilibrium. Does this mean spherical galaxies don't rotate? There's so much I don't know....

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Question Re galactic Spiral arm rotation... - Elisee Recluse - 6/1/2006 5:40:29 PM
- ELIPTICALS MUST ROTATE - R.L. - 6/2/2006 12:38:39 AM
  - re: ELIPTICALS MUST ROTATE - ER - 6/2/2006 12:57:44 AM
    - I didn't mean to shout - R.L. - 6/4/2006 12:34:42 AM
- re: Spiral Arm Rotation - SteveS - 6/1/2006 9:59:35 PM
  - re: Spiral Arm Rotation - ER - 6/1/2006 11:25:28 PM
- re: Question Re galactic Spiral arm rotation... - phil - 6/1/2006 5:44:22 PM
  - Spin Doctor - ER - 6/1/2006 6:16:58 PM
    - re: Spinning galaxies - Raoul - 6/1/2006 7:24:10 PM
      - Spin ambiguity - ER - 6/1/2006 8:21:51 PM
      - The Grand Design - ER - 6/1/2006 8:06:55 PM
        
        re: Density waves - Raoul - 6/1/2006 9:47:24 PM
        
        re: Density waves - ER - 6/2/2006 1:06:55 PM
        
        re: Density waves - Raoul - 6/2/2006 5:52:08 PM
        
        Constantly catching up with our warped galaxy? (n/t) - SteveS - 6/6/2006 4:59:33 PM
        
        re: Density waves - LJK - 6/2/2006 7:00:22 PM
        
        re: Density waves - Marcia - 6/2/2006 11:26:10 PM
        
        High strange - ER - 6/1/2006 11:12:39 PM
        
        Spiral stellar density waves and the flattening of abundance gradients in the warm gas component of spiral galaxies - ljk - 6/2/2006 3:43:38 PM
        
        re: Spiral stellar density waves and the flattening of abundance gradients in the warm gas component of spiral galaxies - Marcia - 6/3/2006 3:13:23 AM
        
        re: DEG should be: Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy/SDG - sorry for typo. (n/t) - Marcia - 6/3/2006 3:18:55 AM
        
        A surprising shortage of hot gas in spiral galaxy M77 - LJK - 6/5/2006 9:33:21 PM

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