Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from ...

276 INDEX
triangles, 148
true science, 187–88
Tunguska Event, 138
TV shows, 1
correct astronomy in, 256–57
UFOs, 206–209
Twain, Mark, 117
twinkling stars, 87, 89–96
atmosphere and, 90–96
changing color, 93
fast exposures and, 94
resolution and, 93–94
seeing and, 91–96
telescopes and, 93–96
UFOs and, 93
2001: A Space Odyssey, 256, 257
2010: The Year We Make Contact,
254, 256
typhoons, 24
UFOs, 202–11, 234
aliens and, 209–10
amateur astronomers and, 205–206
cameras and, 206–209
mistakes and, 204, 205
need to believe in extraordinary
things and, 204, 205
twinkling stars as, 93
Venus and, 205
ultraviolet light, 163
atmosphere and, 223–24
uniformitarianism, 186
United Press, 17
universe, 142–51
advances in knowledge of, 143–46
center of, 149–51
creationism and (see creationism)
Earth-centered model of, 142–43
expansion of, 145–46, 175
fourth dimension and, 149, 150–51
origin of, 144–46, 150, 175
rules of, 188
space and, 147–51
University of Virginia, 87
Uranus, 215
rotation of, 195
V, 251, 252
Van Allen, James, 160, 161–162
Van Allen belts, 160–62
van Maanen’s star, 238
Vega, 55
color of, 97, 101
north celestial pole and, 115
viewing of, through a smokestack,
108–109
Velikovsky, Immanuel. See Worlds in
Collision (Velikovsky)
Venus, 28, 107, 124
brightness of, 111, 205
daylight viewing of, 109
described, 178, 181, 186, 194–95
orbit of, 183
as originally part of Jupiter (see
Worlds in Collision [Velikovsky])
planetary alignment of, 127–32
vernal equinox, 11–20
vernier rocket, 209
Very Large Telescope (VLT), 95
Vesta, 215
Vincent, Lisa, 19–20
violet light, 42–43, 47
Virgin Mary, 105
volcanic eruptions, 44
on Io, 65, 75
Voyager I probe, 73
waning crescent moon, 59
waning gibbous moon, 59
waning moon, 59
Warner Brothers, 155
water
alien theft of, 251–52
lack of, on the Moon, 163
southern hemisphere, 54
water swirls, direction of, 21–27