What is our Galaxy's Hubble type?
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(Or, how do we compare with the Joneses?)

The answer: a hefty Sb(c), more or less.

- Chapters by van den Kruit, and Burton & Deul,
  in "The Galaxy" (1987).

- Hodge, P. 1983, P.A.S.P.  95, 721.

- Hodge, P. 1985, in IAU Symp. 106, "The Milky
  Way Galaxy", p. 423.

The official properties of the Galaxy:

- Kerr, F., and Lynden-Bell, D. 1986, M.N.R.A.S.
  221, 1023.