The Vertical Structure of the Halo Rotation

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New GSC-II proper motions of RR Lyrae and Blue Horizontal Branch (BHB) stars near the North Galactic Pole are used to show that the Galactic Halo 5 kpc above the Plane has a significantly retrograde galactic rotation.
Paper presented at the Galactic Dynamics Workshop (JENAM 2002), 6 pages, uses eas.cls (included)

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