TY  - BOOK
AU  - Plait,Philip C.
TI  - Bad astronomy: misconceptions and misuses revealed, from astrology to the moon landing 'hoax' 
SN  - 0471409766 (acidfree paper)
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Wiley
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - Miscellanea
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Errors, Scientific
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262) and index; pt. 1 Bad astronomy begins at home; 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. 2 From the earth to the moon; 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. 3 Skies at night are big and bright; 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. 4 Artificial intelligence; 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. 5 Beam me up; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -