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OPENING ADDRESS: The Magellanic Clouds: distance, structure, chemical composition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

M. W. Feast*
Affiliation:
South African Astronomical, Observatory PO Box 9, Observatory 7935, Cape, South Africa

Abstract

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As an introduction to the symposium the related problems of the distances, structures and chemical compositions of the Magellanic Clouds are reviewed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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