Bad astronomy : misconceptions and misuses revealed, from astrology to the moon landing 'hoax' /
Plait, Philip C.
Bad astronomy : misconceptions and misuses revealed, from astrology to the moon landing 'hoax' / Philip C. Plait ; [illustrations by Tina Cash Walsh]. - New York : Wiley, c2002. - vii, 277 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262) and index.
The yolks on you : egg balancing and the Equinox -- Flushed with embarrassment : the Coriolis Effect and your bathroom -- Idiom's delight : bad astronomy in everyday language. pt. 1 Bad astronomy begins at home : Blue skies smiling at me : why the sky is blue -- A dash of seasons : why summer turns to fall -- Phase the nation : the moon's changing face -- The gravity of the situation : the moon and the tides -- The moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie : the big moon illusion. pt. 2 From the earth to the moon : Twinkle, twinkle, little star : why stars appear to twinkle -- Star light, star white : stars of many colors -- Well, well : the difficulty of daylight star sighting -- The brightest star : Polaris, just another face in the crowd -- Shadows in the sky : eclipses and sun-watching -- The disaster that wasn't : the great planetary alignment of 2000 -- Meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites, oh my! : the impact of meteors and asteroids -- When the universe throws you a curve : misunderstanding the beginning of it all. pt. 3 Skies at night are big and bright : Appalled at Apollo : uncovering the moon-landing hoax -- Worlds in derision : Velikovsky vs. modern science -- In the beginning : creationism and astronomy -- Misidentified flying objects : UFOs and illusions of the mind and eye -- Mars is in the seventh house, but Venus has left the building : why astrology doesn't work. pt. 4 Artificial intelligence : Hubble trouble : Hubble Space Telescope misconceptions -- Star hustlers : star naming for dummies -- Bad astronomy goes Hollywood : the top-ten examples of bad astronomy in major motion pictures. pt. 5 Beam me up :
Describes the science behind many astronomy-related misconceptions and hoaxes covering such topics as meteors, eclipses, UFOs, the big bang theory, and the Moon landing.
0471409766 (acidfree paper) 9780471409762 (acid-free paper)
2002277382
GBA2-Z1884 dnb
Astronomy--Miscellanea.
Astronomy--Popular works.
Errors, Scientific.
Bad astronomy : misconceptions and misuses revealed, from astrology to the moon landing 'hoax' / Philip C. Plait ; [illustrations by Tina Cash Walsh]. - New York : Wiley, c2002. - vii, 277 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262) and index.
The yolks on you : egg balancing and the Equinox -- Flushed with embarrassment : the Coriolis Effect and your bathroom -- Idiom's delight : bad astronomy in everyday language. pt. 1 Bad astronomy begins at home : Blue skies smiling at me : why the sky is blue -- A dash of seasons : why summer turns to fall -- Phase the nation : the moon's changing face -- The gravity of the situation : the moon and the tides -- The moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie : the big moon illusion. pt. 2 From the earth to the moon : Twinkle, twinkle, little star : why stars appear to twinkle -- Star light, star white : stars of many colors -- Well, well : the difficulty of daylight star sighting -- The brightest star : Polaris, just another face in the crowd -- Shadows in the sky : eclipses and sun-watching -- The disaster that wasn't : the great planetary alignment of 2000 -- Meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites, oh my! : the impact of meteors and asteroids -- When the universe throws you a curve : misunderstanding the beginning of it all. pt. 3 Skies at night are big and bright : Appalled at Apollo : uncovering the moon-landing hoax -- Worlds in derision : Velikovsky vs. modern science -- In the beginning : creationism and astronomy -- Misidentified flying objects : UFOs and illusions of the mind and eye -- Mars is in the seventh house, but Venus has left the building : why astrology doesn't work. pt. 4 Artificial intelligence : Hubble trouble : Hubble Space Telescope misconceptions -- Star hustlers : star naming for dummies -- Bad astronomy goes Hollywood : the top-ten examples of bad astronomy in major motion pictures. pt. 5 Beam me up :
Describes the science behind many astronomy-related misconceptions and hoaxes covering such topics as meteors, eclipses, UFOs, the big bang theory, and the Moon landing.
0471409766 (acidfree paper) 9780471409762 (acid-free paper)
2002277382
GBA2-Z1884 dnb
Astronomy--Miscellanea.
Astronomy--Popular works.
Errors, Scientific.