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	Maffei 1 Group
		Its dominant member is the giant elliptical galaxy, Maffei 1, which, together with Maffei 2, was discovered on infrared plates in 1968 by the Italian astronomer Paolo Maffei (1926-).
		Both galaxies lie near the galactic equator in Cassiopeia in the so-called zone of avoidance and are thus heavily obscured at visible wavelengths by dust and gas.
		Maffei 2 is a medium-sized, average-brightness barred spiral galaxy (type SBc II) about 16 million light-years away, while the distance to Maffei 1 has been put at around 10 million light-years.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/M/Maffei_1_Group.html (200 words)

	The Maffei Group
		The Maffei group is a famous nearby group of galaxies even though most of the galaxies in the group have only been discovered in the past twenty years.
		Maffei II (centre) is a spiral galaxy with a prominant bar at the centre of it.
		The dominant galaxies in this group are IC 342, Maffei I and Maffei II.
	www.atlasoftheuniverse.com /galgrps/maffei.html (779 words)

	The Universe within 100 million Light Years - The Virgo Supercluster
		The Sculptor group is the nearest group of galaxies to the Local Group and is dominated by five galaxies, four spiral - NGC 247, 253, 300 and 7793 and one irregular - NGC 55.
		This is a neighbouring group of galaxies in Centaurus and is dominated by the two spiral galaxies M83 and NGC 4945 and the large lenticular galaxy NGC 5128.
		The Virgo II groups are a long filament of galaxies extending southwards from the groups of galaxies at the southern edge of the Virgo cluster.
	www.atlasoftheuniverse.com /virgo.html (1108 words)

	Maffei II - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maffei II and Maffei I were both discovered by Paolo Maffei in 1968 from their infrared emission.
		Maffei II lies in the zone of avoidance and is heavily obscured by the Milky Way, so is barely detectable at optical wavelengths.
		It has been suggested that Maffei II may be a member of the Local Group, but it is now thought to be a member of another nearby group, the Maffei Group.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Maffei_II (131 words)

	Maffei 1 group of galaxies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its dominant member is the giant elliptical galaxy, Maffei 1, which, together with Maffei 2, was discovered on infrared plates in 1968 by the Italian astronomer Paolo Maffei (1926-).
		Maffei 2 is a medium-sized, average-brightness Barred Spiral Galaxy (type SBc) about 16 million light-years away, while the distance to Maffei 1 has been put at around 10 million light-years.
		Other known galaxies in the group are IC 342, Dwingeloo 1, Dwingeloo 2, and some smaller systems, including two possible satellites of Maffei 1.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maffei_Group (342 words)

	Astrodon - Welcome To AstroDon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Their plan was to use deep 0.8 mm CCD images to gauge the size and luminosity of Maffei 1, which in turn would yield a better estimate of its distance.
		Maffei 1, however, has a galactic latitude of only -0.6d, and is so heavily obscured (5 magnitudes in V) that it wasn't even discovered until 1968 (by Paolo Maffei of the Laboratorio di Astrofisica).
		We now know that there is a group of 13 galaxies in the same general area of the sky, dominated by Maffei 1 and the giant spiral IC 342.
	dg-imaging.astrodon.com /gallery/display.cfm?imgID=9 (903 words)

	News & Views
		Maffei also had participated in some group shows in Santiago.2 In his first solo presentation he exhibited oils made in 1988 and 1989, pastels from the same period, and two pencil drawings dated 1984: two desolate landscapes depicting Chile’s rough mountainous region.
		Maffei had a new one-person exhibition in 1996, at Tomás Andreu’s gallery.3 Between solo shows, Maffei took part in several group exhibitions, both within Chile as well as abroad.4 He also distanced his work from that of Claudio Bravo.
		Maffei is a realist, but before that he is a painter—one who has chosen to wear the realist costume.
	www.artnexus.com /NewsDetail/13529 (2567 words)

	Maffei I -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maffei I is a large (Click link for more info and facts about elliptical galaxy) elliptical galaxy (type E or S0) in (A W-shaped constellation in the northern hemisphere near Polaris) Cassiopeia.
		Maffei I lies in the (Click link for more info and facts about zone of avoidance) zone of avoidance and is heavily obscured by the (The galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky) Milky Way.
		It has been suggested that Maffei I may be a member of the (Click link for more info and facts about Local Group) Local Group, but it is now though to be a member of another nearby group, the (Click link for more info and facts about Maffei Group) Maffei Group.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/maffei_i.htm (242 words)

	Maffei II -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maffei II is a large (Click link for more info and facts about barred spiral galaxy) barred spiral galaxy ((Click link for more info and facts about type SBb) type SBb) in (A W-shaped constellation in the northern hemisphere near Polaris) Cassiopeia.
		Maffei II and (Click link for more info and facts about Maffei I) Maffei I were both discovered by Paolo Maffei in 1968 from their infrared emission.
		It has been suggested that Maffei II may be a member of the (Click link for more info and facts about Local Group) Local Group, but it is now thought to be a member of another nearby group, the (Click link for more info and facts about Maffei Group) Maffei Group.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Maffei_II1.htm (138 words)

	More New Neighbors for the Milky Way (1Jun95)
		Maffei 1, however, has a galactic latitude of only -0.6d, and is so heavily obscured (5 magnitudes in V) that it wasn't even discovered until 1968 (by Paolo Maffei of the Laboratorio di Astrofisica).
		We now know that there is a group of 13 galaxies in the same general area of the sky, dominated by Maffei 1 and the giant spiral IC 342.
		Second, it may be possible to constrain the amount of matter in the Maffei group as a whole from the dispersion of galaxy motions within it.
	www.noao.edu /noao/noaonews/jun95/art2.html (843 words)

	Telephony: Once Around: Why 360networks Still Puts Faith in Fiber - 360networks to acquire Canadian company Group ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maffei - who had come to the firm from Microsoft in January 2000 amid much fanfare and expectations that he could give a relatively unknown Canadian company a new public identity - stood at the precipice of a grand failure.
		If at that point Maffei had resigned, been forced out or left powerless in a debtor liquidation of 360networks' assets, his name would now be spoken in the same critical tone reserved for the many once-celebrated executives from big firms who took over much-hyped start-ups and quickly flamed out.
		Maffei and company faced the challenge of coming up with a restructuring plan that could rapidly melt a $2.7 billion mountain of debt and lure new financing in the midst of a lingering telecom industry bust.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0TPY/is_2_243/ai_96863126 (1387 words)

	Maffei I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maffei I and Maffei II were both discovered by Paolo Maffei in 1968 from their infraredemission.
		Maffei I lies in the zone of avoidance and is heavily obscuredby the Milky Way.
		It has been suggested that Maffei I may be a member of the Local Group, but it is now though to be a member of another nearby group, the Maffei Group.
	www.therfcc.org /maffei-i-213329.html (120 words)

	YORK AND ALABAMA ASTRONOMERS "SEE THE LIGHT" AFTER UNMASKING OBSCURED GALAXIES
		The IC342-Maffei 1 group of galaxies was probably involved in a chain of events that affected our neighbourhood in the sky, McCall said, and therefore the group may have played a role in the history and movement of our galaxy, and, of course, our solar system.
		In the past, research on this group has been inhibited by clouds of dust which both obscure and redden the light from the galaxies, and by tens of thousands of superimposed stars in the Milky Way interfering with measurements of the properties of the members.
		They found that IC342, Maffei 1, and Maffei 2 are so bright that, if not for the dust obscuring them, they would be among the five brightest galaxies in the northern sky.
	www.yorku.ca /mediar/releases_1996_2000/archive/011597.htm (952 words)

	Groups and clusters of galaxies - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Groups of galaxies are the smallest aggregates of galaxies.
		Clusters are larger than groups, although there is no sharp dividing line between a group and a cluster.
		Groups, clusters and some isolated galaxies form even larger structures, the superclusters.
	openproxy.ath.cx /ga/Galaxy_cluster.html (407 words)

	The IC 342-Maffei 1 Group Revealed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Almost none of these galaxies was effectively studied in the past because of the heavy foreground extinction and significant foreground star contamination in the direction of the group.
		In the absence of galactic extinction, Maffei 1, Maffei 2, and IC 342 would be among the five brightest galaxies in the northern sky, and both Maffei 1 and IC 342 would subtent angles as large as the full Moon.
		The results are critical for assessing the degree to which the group influenced the dynamical evolution of the Local Group.
	www.aas.org /publications/baas/v28n4/aas189/abs/S080005.html (200 words)

	MS CFO Maffei leaves for fibre-filled role \| The Register
		Maffei was one of the inner circle at Microsoft, and as CFO looked after its $22 billion cash and $8 billion of investments.
		Maffei said that his departure will mean that he will be leaving "a lot of money on the table", meaning that he will be unable to take up lavish Microsoft stock options, which Microsoft uses as its way of retaining senior staff.
		Maffei's replacement is John Connors, a one-time accountant who joined Microsoft in 1989 and who was previously VP of the worldwide enterprise group, which will now report to Jeff Raikes for the time being.
	www.theregister.co.uk /1999/12/23/ms_cfo_maffei_leaves (727 words)

	The Nearest Groups of Galaxies
		Nearly all of the nearby galaxies lie near this plane (the supergalactic coordinate system was originally invented because many nearby galaxy groups lie close to this plane.) All of the brightest and largest galaxies within 20 million light years are marked on this map together with many of the fainter dwarf galaxies.
		Maffei I on the left is a large elliptical galaxy, and Maffei II in the middle is a spiral galaxy but both galaxies are completely obscured by dust in the plane of our own galaxy and appear as dim, red smudges.
		Some of these galaxies still have uncertain distances, especially the Maffei group galaxies and also some galaxies in the far southern hemisphere which cannot be seen by Russian telescopes.
	www.ldps.ws /Mirror/Universe/galgrps.html (688 words)

	The Maffei 1 Group of Galaxies
		Group of Galaxies LGG 104 in Cassiopeia and Camelopardalis
		The galaxies of this group have probably once formed a subgroup of our Local Group, which during the dynamical history of the group, have been ejected because of a violent encounter with the Andromeda Galaxy M31.
		As the Maffei 1 group lies very close to the Galactic plane (the equatorial plane of our Galaxy), it is highly obscured by the dark dusty matter of our Milky Way.
	www.seds.org /messier/xtra/ngc/maffei1g.html (457 words)

	Maffei 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The dim reddish glow from the central regions of Maffei 1, a large elliptical galaxy only about 5 megaparsecs way, is all that remains of the galaxy's light after traversing the clouds of our own galaxy.
		Maffei 1 and the neighboring spiral Maffei 2 are so close that some workers, such as Gene Byrd and collaborators, have calculated that these galaxies' gravitational influence might have been significant in the early history of our own Local Group galaxies.
		To the northeast of Maffei 1 is a small foreground reflection nebula, whose unusual greenish hue results from a combination of its blue intrinsic color and the reddening from intervening dust in the outer arms of the MIlky Way.
	www.astr.ua.edu /gifimages/maffei1.html (250 words)

	New Group Is Racing To Slow Down GOP
		The group, Majority Action, is sponsoring commercials that hit Reps. Deborah Pryce (Ohio) and James T. Walsh (N.Y.) on corruption and the war in Iraq, respectively.
		The group is registered as a 527 (so named for its place in the tax code) with the Internal Revenue Service and had raised $210,000 as of June 30.
		Armey is now headed to Iowa for a speech on Sept. 19, stoking speculation that he may fancy himself a candidate for president in 2008.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/06/AR2006090602065.html (664 words)

	Encyclopedia: Maffei I
		Maffei I is a large elliptical galaxy (type E or S0) in Cassiopeia.
		Maffei I lies in the zone of avoidance and is heavily obscured by the Milky Way.
		Lying approximately 10 million light years away from the Sun, Maffei I is the nearest large elliptical galaxy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Maffei-I (163 words)

	The Independent Online - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maffei bases that assertion on the Timber Sale Program Information Reporting System, which he says is the accounting method that was mandated by Congress and the GAO.
		Maffei admits that other priorities of the Forest Service timber program, such as fire-prevention, forest thinning, restoration and wildlife conservation, have contributed to making timber sales less profitable than they might be otherwise.
		Maffei says that particularly over the last five years, administering timber sales has become more costly and time-consuming, especially the environmental analyses, which he says have become “almost a gargantuan undertaking,” and eat up roughly 60 percent of his timber sales budget.
	www.missoulanews.com /News/News.asp?no=1774 (867 words)

	Call Center Consulting - About Us
		Group is a dedicated team of call center professionals led by industry veteran Michael R. Maffei.
		Maffei was Vice President for a major staffing company where he built an organization that generated almost $80 million in call center staffing business in three years.
		Maffei's real passion and expertise is helping call centers solve their number one issue; staffing.
	www.brandonwayne.net /wst_page2.html (359 words)

	New York Blade Online
		Maffei first approached the Mets at the end of the 2003 season about organizing a gay event at one of their games.
		Maffei says he wanted to organize the event to bring positive gay exposure to baseball.
		While they welcomed Maffei’s idea and have worked with him on creating a title and flyers for the event, they view this as a group-sales event and won’t comment further to the press about it.
	www.nyblade.com /print.cfm?content_id=1955 (1220 words)

	The Local Group
		Observations and calculations suggest that the group is highly dynamic and has changed significantly in the past: The galaxies around the large elliptical Maffei 1 have probably been once part of our galaxy group.
		The next more distant galaxy groups, the NGC 4244 group and the CVn I Cloud (with M94 and M64) are probably too remote to have interacted significantly with the Local Group in the past.
		It is of interest that of the subgroups of the Local Group mentioned above, the NGC 3109 group tends to the general direction of the Maffei 1 group and the M81 group, while the Local Group Cloud tends to the general direction of the Sculptor Group.
	www.seds.org /messier/more/local.html (1694 words)

	Science News Magazine Editor's Picks - The little bang
		Given their proximity to the Milky Way, Maffei 1 and IC 342 seem to be moving away more rapidly than cosmic expansion alone would dictate.
		Byrd cautions that because Maffei 1 and IC 342 reside in dust-shrouded locations behind the Milky Way, astronomers still don't have an accurate measure of their distances.
		The recent discovery of two galaxies that appear to be close companions of Maffei 1 may shed further light on the chain of events that led to its showdown with Andromeda.
	sciencenews.org /sn_edpik/as_2.htm (1805 words)

	The Extended Local Group of Galaxies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Most galaxies form groups and clusters of galaxies which contain from few tens to several hundreds of galaxies.
		Between groups of galaxies there are some lone field galaxies, of which it it sometimes difficult to tell whether they do or do not belong to a group.
		The closest ones are the Maffei group and the Sculptor group.
	www.astro.utu.fi /~rareko/AstroDic/LocalGroup.html (482 words)

	TheStreet.com: Microsoft Comes Down to Earth With Appointment of Connors as CFO
		Maffei, a New York native and a graduate of Harvard Business School who came to Microsoft in 1993 after hunting for buyout targets at Citicorp Venture Capital, served as the company's treasurer and VP of corporate development.
		Microsoft hired Maffei to establish a sort of mini-investment banking operation, and his stature grew as he negotiated many of its deals with the cable industry, such as its $5 billion investment in AT&T (T:NYSE - news).
		Maffei, after all, is credited as the father of Microsoft's conservative accounting practices, which helped build its reputation as a master of Wall Street's earnings-management game.
	www.thestreet.com /tech/software/848174.html (908 words)

	Matrix Astrology Software : The Local Group of Galaxies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Local Group includes about 27 near galaxies that share a common center of gravity, and the best known members are (besides the Milky Way), the Andromeda Nebula (M31), the Triangulum Nebula (M33), and the Magellanic Clouds.
		This puts them on the outskirts of the Local Group, but with a high velocity such that they could only be passing through our local cluster of galaxies, rather than being a permanent member.
		Maffei I is a giant elliptical galaxy and Maffei II a spiral galaxy.
	www.thenewage.com /resources/aphysical/eggalax6.asp?orig= (1729 words)

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