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The Milky Way satellite dwarf galaxy Antlia II is one of the lowest surface brightness galaxies known. It has a size comparable to the Large Magellanic Cloud, but only 10^6 solar masses of stars. We present kinematic and chemical measurements from the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey using the AAT/2dF, which clearly demonstrate that Antlia II is tidally disrupting. The orbit and velocity gradient also clearly shows that the Milky Way has moved in response to the Large Magellanic Cloud. However, Antlia II currently lies on the galaxy mass-metallicity relation, suggesting that it has not lost too much stellar mass. These measurements constrain the density profile of Antlia II and generally illustrate the importance of full dynamic models when interpreting the masses of local group galaxies.
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