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New observations of the Magellanic Stream are used in a recent discrete ram-pressure theory which proposes that the signs of interaction in the Magellanic System point to a collision event some 2–4 × 108 years ago, and that the collisions between the inter-Cloud gas and a discrete halo produce the Magellanic Stream.
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Wayte, S. (1989). The Origin of the Magellanic Stream. In: Corwin, H.G., Bottinelli, L. (eds) The World of Galaxies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9356-6_23
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