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A plot showing the rotation curve data points for galaxy NGC 3198, along with predictions from a simple dark matter model described in the previous tweet. The predictions of the model all sit within the error bars of the data points.

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  1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 20:14:53 UTC Robert McNees Robert McNees
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    Once you add a non-luminous component like this to your description of the galaxy, Newtonian gravity does a pretty good job of explaining our orbital velocity measurements. Here's what we get for that NGC 3198 data.

    In conversation Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 20:14:53 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
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