Presented arguments are shown to indicate that the mass of spiral galaxies increases almost linearly with radius to nearly 1 Mpc. This means that the total mass per giant spiral is of the order of 10 billion solar masses. A local mean cosmological mass density is determined, whose uncertainty is not less than a factor of 3.
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Ostriker et al. (1974) studied this question.