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To: RadioAstronomer
I wonder how I can fit in "a moose bit my sister"!

Good point. Why isn't there a Moose constellation? And another thing - who gets to name those things anyway? Why can't I (or any other living thing) draw up a sky-chart with my own darn names of things. First to go - Andromeda. Never liked the name, never will.

73 posted on 10/01/2004 2:02:55 PM PDT by searchandrecovery (Socialist America - diseased and dysfunctional.)
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To: searchandrecovery

Some of the constellation names go back to the ancient Greeks, but they couldn't see the stars in the extreme south. A few hundred years ago some European astronomers traveled to the southern hemisphere and invented new constellations for the stars near the celestial south pole, including a bunch of dumb names like Microscopium (Microscope), Telescopium (Telescope), and Antlia (Air Pump). Not only is there no Moose constellation, but there's also no Squirrel.


123 posted on 10/01/2004 7:42:24 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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