Bad Astronomy

Introduction.
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 YourBathroom.
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 MoonIllusion.
PART III: Skies at Night Are Big and Bright.
9. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Why Stars Appear toTwinkle.
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 theCrowd.
13. Shadows in the Sky: Eclipses and Sun-Watching.
14. The Disaster that Wasn't: The Great Planetary Alignment of2000.
15. Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites, Oh My!: The Impact ofMeteors and Asteroids.
16. When the Universe Throws You a Curve: Misunderstanding theBeginning 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 Mindand Eye.
21. Mars Is in the Seventh House, But Venus Has Left the Building:Why Astrology Doesn't Work.
PARTV: 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 BadAstronomy in Major Motion Pictures.
Recommended Reading.
Acknowledgments.
Index.