Ravenson420
Ravenson420 t1_jcrywyq wrote
Reply to comment by OneAndOnlyJoeseki in What is the motion btwn Milky Way & Andromeda relative to the motion btwn those two and the Great Attractor? by Griegz
No because if the Milky Way were going faster than Andromeda they'd never collide.
Ravenson420 t1_jco3vsb wrote
Reply to What is the motion btwn Milky Way & Andromeda relative to the motion btwn those two and the Great Attractor? by Griegz
The Great Attractor is somewhere in the Vela/Norma/Centaurus region, which is pretty much opposite the Andromeda constellation. As such, the Milky Way is mostly in between Andromeda and the GA. Thus, the collision vectors of the two galaxies is mostly, "Andromeda is moving toward the GA faster".
Ravenson420 t1_jcuh5qw wrote
Reply to comment by OneAndOnlyJoeseki in What is the motion btwn Milky Way & Andromeda relative to the motion btwn those two and the Great Attractor? by Griegz
It's the third. I said right in the post that the Milky Way is between Andromeda and the Attractor because those two things are in basically opposite parts of the sky.