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Table 1: Dwarf galaxies within the vicinity of the MW. The first column is a running number used throughout this text; the parentheses contain the running number used in Sect. 4 after excluding the SMC and UMi. D and eD are the distance and its uncertainty, respectively. l, b are the Galactic longitude and latitude, respectively, as seen from the Sun and defined such that l=0, b=0 points towards the Galactic centre which is assumed to lie at a distance $D_\odot =8.5$ kpc from the Sun, and l increases in anticlockwise direction. The Galactocentric distance of the dwarf is given by R. The name of the dwarf is given in the 7th column. The data are from Mateo (1998, Table 2), except that for the LMC D and eD are taken from Salaris et al. (2003) and Clementini et al. (2003), and likewise for the SMC from Dolphin et al. (2001). The remaining columns contain the plane-fitting results for the innermost N dwarves (Sect. 3): $R_{\rm cut}$ is the largest distance to the Galactic centre of this sample, and the fitted plane has a root-mean square height $\Delta$ and a distance to the Galactic centre $D_{\rm P}$ . For comparison, the final column lists the root-mean-square height $\Delta _2(R_{\rm cut})$ for samples of $4\times 10^5$ theoretical dwarves with an isotropic isothermal radial number density profile (p=2) and radial cutoff $R_{\rm cut}$ .