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Introduction 1
PART I Bad Astronomy Begins at Home
1 The Yolk's on You: Egg Balancing and the Equinox
2 Flushed with Embarrassment: The Coriolis Effect and Your Bathroom
3 Idiom's Delight: Bad Astronomy in Everyday Language
PART II From the Earth to the Moon
4 Blue Skies Smiling at Me: Why the Sky Is Blue
5 A Dash of Seasons: Why Summer Turns to Fall
6 Phase the Nation: The Moon's Changing Face
7 The Gravity of the Situation: The Moon and the Tides
8 The Moon Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie: The Big Moon Illusion
PART III Skies at Night Are Big and Bright
9 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Why Stars Appear to Twinkle
10 Star Light, Star White: Stars of Many Colors
11 Well, Well: The Difficulty of Daylight Star Sighting
12 The Brightest Star: Polaris-Just Another Face in the Crowd
13 Shadows in the Sky: Eclipses and Sun-Watching
14 The Disaster that Wasn't: The Great Planetary Alignment of 2000
15 Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites, Oh My!: The Impact of Meteors and Asteroids
16 When the Universe Throws You a Curve: Misunderstanding the Beginning of It All
PART IV Artificial Intelligence
17 Appalled at Apollo: Uncovering the Moon-Landing Hoax
18 Worlds in Derision: Velikovsky vs. Modern Science
19 In the Beginning: Creationism and Astronomy
20 Misidentified Flying Objects: UFOs and Illusions of the Mind and Eye
21 Mars Is in the Seventh House, But Venus Has Left the Building: Why Astrology Doesn't Work
PART V Beam Me Up
22 Hubble Trouble: Hubble Space Telescope Misconceptions
23 Star Hustlers: Star Naming for Dummies
24 Bad Astronomy Goes Hollywood: The Top-Ten Examples of Bad Astronomy in Major Motion Pictures
Recommended Reading
Acknowledgments
Index
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