The M31 Velocity Vector. III. Future Milky Way-M31-M33 Orbital Evolution, Merging, and Fate of the Sun · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1205.6865/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTThe M31 Velocity Vector. III. Future Milky Way-M31-M33 Orbital Evolution, Merging, and Fate of the Sun — mentioned by privonghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7817750urn:hackerpapers:mention:1205.6865:7817750Thu, 29 May 2014 18:24:43 GMT<p>FWIW, this result came out in 2012[0,1]. This NYT piece seems like it&#x27;s just trying to use the non-event of the Swift/BAT detection[2] in M31 with with some other random M31 information to make a story. Unfortunately, there&#x27;s not any new information in this NYT piece. [0] (Nature summary of results) http://www.nature.com/news/andromeda-on-collision-course-wit... [1] (preprint of results) http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6865 [2] http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5211327&amp;cid=4710...</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1205.6865/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph.GA