 19 July 2007  I have also seen the comment in various places that the LMC has 1/10 the number of stars as the Milky Way. If the star density is the same in the two galaxies, that would lead to a diameter of 46,000 ly for the LMC (100,000 ly times the cube root of 0.1). The LMC is also admitted to be the fourth largest galaxy in the local cluster (after the Milky Way, M31 and M33). Personally I don't think it is a dwarf galaxy at all. Gary Thomas 20 July 2007