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Are the Maffei Galaxies Members of the Local Group ?

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I SUGGEST in this report that the highly obscured galaxy IC342 might be associated with Maffei 1 and Maffei 2 (refs. 1 and 2). IC342 is the fourth largest (after M31, M33 and M101) spiral galaxy known. It is separated from Maffei 1 by less than 12° which, at a distance of 2 M parsec (Mpc), would correspond to a projected separation of only 0.4 Mpc. Available data on Maffei 1 and on IC342 are compared in Table 1.

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VAN DEN BERGH, S. Are the Maffei Galaxies Members of the Local Group ?. Nature 231, 35–36 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/231035b0

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