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galactic, 75–76
mass, distance and, 65–66, 129
moon and the tides (see tides)
of planetary alignment, 125–29
precession and, 54–56
warping space, 147
“Great” Planetary Alignment of May
2000, 87–88, 125–32
books about, 130–31
gravity and, 125–29
previous alignments and, 127–28
“surviving,” 131–32
tides and, 129–30
Great Pyramid, 131
green light, 100
Gregory of Tours, 105
Gribbin, John, 131
Gumbel, Bryant, 3–4
Hale Telescope, 226
“halo,” 170, 205
Hawking, Stephen, 150
Hawley, Steve, 228
Hebrew calendar, 182
heiligenschein, 170
helium, 194–95
Henes, Donna, 17–18
Henry Draper star catalog (HD), 238
Hipparcos, 253
Ho, 118
Hoagland, Richard, 233–35
horoscopes. See astrology
Hsi, 118
Hubble, Edwin, 144, 146
Hubble Space Telescope (HST), 99,
161, 221, 223–35
atmosphere and, 223–24, 227
cameras on, 202, 207, 211, 228–33
collecting light, 227
conspiracy theorists and, 233–35
Earth images from, 232
guide-star catalog for, 237
INDEX 269
idea for, 223–24
illustrated, 225
interest in, 5
mirrors of, 224–26
Moon images from, 231–35
precession and, 55
proposals to use, 229–30
secret data from, 229–31
seeing and, 94
size of, 226
Space Shuttle and, 226, 228
supermarket checkout newspapers
and, 235
Hughes, David, 109
Humanist, The, 215–16
hurricanes, 24, 25
hydrogen, 178
collapsing cloud theory and,
194–95
Hynek, J. Allen, 108–109
ice, 193, 205, 209
as everywhere in solar system,
251–52
“Idiom’s Delight,” 28–35
dark side of the moon, 31–33
light-years, 28–30
meteoric rise, 30–31
quantum leap, 33–35
ignorance about science, 3–4
infindibulum, 15
infrared light, 223, 226
Institute for Creation Research (ICR),
189, 193, 199. See also
creationism
International Astronomical Union,
237
International Star Registry (ISR),
239–42
Internet, 4–5, 30, 240–42
Invasion, 251
Io, 65, 74–75