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Discovery Ibata, Gilmore, Irwin 1995 Sagittarius: the nearest dwarf galaxy [Fe/H]=-1.25+/0.5 age: 7 Gyr for [Fe/H]=-1.0 isochrone associated GCs: M54, Ter 7, Arp 2, Ter 8 Metallicity, Age Monaco et al. 2005 The Ital-FLAMES survey of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy. I. Chemical abundances of bright RGB stars [Fe/H]=-0.41+/-0.20 with a tail to -1.52 LMC-like [Fe/H] distribution? Kinematics Ibata, Wyse, Gilmore, Irwin, Suntzeff 1997 The Kinematics, Orbit, and Survival of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy R_Sun = 25 kpc R_GC = 16 kpc [U,V,W] = [232,0,194] orbital period: 1 Gyr M/L ~ 100 Globular clusters M54, Ter 7, Arp 2, Ter 8 (Ibata et al 1995) Pal 12 (Irwin 1999) NGC 2419 ? (Newberg et al. 2003) NGC 4147 ? (Bellazzini et al. 2003) Bellazzini, Ferraro, Ibata 2003 Building Up the Globular Cluster System of the Milky Way: The Contribution of the Sagittarius Galaxy Ranked list Bellazzini, Ibata, Ferraro, Testa 2003 Tracing the Sgr Stream with 2MASS. Detection of Stream stars around Outer Halo globular clusters