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Milky Way a swifter spinner and more massive    Posted: 06
January, 2009  New high precision measurements of the Milky Way
suggest that our home Galaxy is spinning a dizzy 100,000 miles
per hour faster than previously believed.  According to Mark
Reid of the Harvard-Smi