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Bad Astronomy PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing “Hoax” PHILIP C. PLAIT John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Page 7 and 8: Copyright © 2002 by Philip C. Plai
Page 9 and 10: vi CONTENTS 11 Well, Well: The Diff
Page 12 and 13: INTRODUCTION I love bad science fic
Page 14 and 15: INTRODUCTION 3 If movies were the o
Page 16 and 17: INTRODUCTION 5 tasy. In this atmosp
Page 18: INTRODUCTION 7 I won’t give away
Page 21 and 22: 10 BAD ASTRONOMY BEGINS AT HOME hom
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Page 35 and 36: 24 BAD ASTRONOMY BEGINS AT HOME Aft
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Page 39 and 40: 3 PPPPPP Idiom’s Delight: Bad Ast
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Page 48 and 49: PART II PPPPPP From the Earth to th
Page 50 and 51: 4 PPPPPP Blue Skies Smiling at Me:
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BLUE SKIES SMILING AT ME 41 nitroge
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BLUE SKIES SMILING AT ME 43 ter mor
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BLUE SKIES SMILING AT ME 45 than th
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BLUE SKIES SMILING AT ME 47 of colo
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A DASH OF SEASONS 49 It’s true th
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Northern Hemisphere Summer Earth in
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A DASH OF SEASONS 53 hot in the sum
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A DASH OF SEASONS 55 23.5 degrees.
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6 PPPPPP Phase the Nation: The Moon
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PHASE THE NATION 59 lowers of Islam
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VIEW FROM EARTH full moon PHASE THE
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PHASE THE NATION 63 Your eyes aren
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THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION 65 was
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THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION 67 on
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(a.) (b.) center of the Earth THE G
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THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION 71 tio
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high tide THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUAT
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THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION 75 moo
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8 PPPPPP The Moon Hits Your Eye Lik
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THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE LIKE A BIG P
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PART III PPPPPPP Skies at Night Are
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9 PPPPPP Twinkle, Twinkle, Little S
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TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR 91 ex
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TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR 93 ma
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TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR 95 (a
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10 PPPPPP Star Light, Star White: S
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STAR LIGHT, STAR WHITE 99 But he co
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STAR LIGHT, STAR WHITE 101 geuse is
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11 PPPPPP Well, Well: The Difficult
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WELL, WELL 105 Still awake? In othe
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WELL, WELL 107 at first, that you c
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WELL, WELL 109 it. Two students eve
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12 PPPPPP The Brightest Star: Polar
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THE BRIGHTEST STAR 113 can’t see
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THE BRIGHTEST STAR 115 point of lig
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SHADOWS IN THE SKY 117 Moon’s orb
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SHADOWS IN THE SKY 119 eaten is a c
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SHADOWS IN THE SKY 121 eclipse the
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SHADOWS IN THE SKY 123 time that ad
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14 PPPPPP The Disaster That Wasn’
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THE DISASTER THAT WASN’T 127 All
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THE DISASTER THAT WASN’T 129 it.
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THE DISASTER THAT WASN’T 131 wrot
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15 PPPPPP Meteors, Meteoroids, and
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METEORS, METEOROIDS, AND METEORITES
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WHEN THE UNIVERSE THROWS YOU A CURV
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154 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE This se
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156 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and non
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158 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE In the
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160 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Some pe
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162 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE radiati
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164 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE astrona
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166 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE point o
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168 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE sunligh
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170 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Astroph
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172 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The sam
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18 PPPPPP Worlds in Derision: Velik
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176 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Velikov
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178 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE off, fl
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180 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE In one
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182 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Even gr
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184 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE This qu
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186 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE dust ne
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188 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE man is
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190 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Creatio
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192 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE But, ag
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194 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE moons h
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196 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Ironica
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198 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The cre
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200 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE that th
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20 PPPPPP Misidentified Flying Obje
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204 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE them, a
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206 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE people
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208 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE settle
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210 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and mut
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21 PPPPPP Mars Is in the Seventh Ho
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214 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE defend
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216 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE there,
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218 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE When pe
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220 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE can be
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222 BEAM ME UP may be the biggest p
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224 BEAM ME UP I doubt Spitzer was
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226 BEAM ME UP Incidentally, the CN
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228 BEAM ME UP THE CASE FOR SPACE S
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230 BEAM ME UP accepted. That, in t
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232 BEAM ME UP This turns out not t
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234 BEAM ME UP which involve space
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23 PPPPPP Star Hustlers: Star Namin
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238 BEAM ME UP out quickly, and so
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240 BEAM ME UP Martino, however, fi
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242 BEAM ME UP Usually, these FAQs
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244 BEAM ME UP And I have an even b
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246 BEAM ME UP block. How many time
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248 BEAM ME UP If you collected all
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250 BEAM ME UP Galaxy. To be able t
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252 BEAM ME UP are mostly composed
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254 BEAM ME UP 9. . . . Our Hero ge
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256 BEAM ME UP That would mean a st
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RECOMMENDED READING No book on astr
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RECOMMENDED READING 261 Mikolaj Saw
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I feel obligated as
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INDEX ablation, 137 actuators, 95 a
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comets, 30, 134, 256 ancient report
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galactic, 75-76 mass, distance and,
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meteor showers, 135-36 meteor storm
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described, 114-15 illustrated, 114
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alternative to, 243-44 companies se
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waxing crescent moon, 59 waxing gib
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