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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89935-2 - Patrick Moore’s Data Book of Astronomy Edited by Patrick Moore and Robin Rees Index More information Index 3C-273 in Virgo 360 Anderson, J. D. and W. B. Hubbard model Aristarchus 526 47 Tucani cluster 349 of Jupiter 183 Aristotle, 127, 288 Planet X and movements of Uranus and Armstrong, Neil 34 Abbott, Charles 13 Neptune 251 Arp 148 362 Abell 370 cluster of galaxies 361 Anderson, L. 248 Arp, Halton 366 Absolute magnitude, conversion to luminosity Andromeda 373 Arrhenius, Svante 122, 272 (table) 304 M31 361 and meteor crater 285 Achondrites 281 spiral 3, 338 Ashen light 109 Acidalia 137 spiral 338 explanations: Gruithuisen, Herschel 109 Active Galactic Nulcei (AGN) 358 spiral galaxy, distance 357 modern theory 109–110 Active galaxies 358 Andromedid meteor shower 273 Asher, D. 277 Adams, J. C. 224 Anglo-Australian Observatory 512 Assyrians data collector 526 calculations of the outer planets 235 Anglo-Australian telescope 306 Asterisms 370 Adams, W. S. 110, 132, 319 Angstrom, A. 9 Summer Triangle 372 Adel, A. 226 Angstrom, Anders 291 Asteroid 1036 Ganymed 171 Adhara, epsilon Canis Major, brightest EUV source 521 Angstrom unit 10 Asteroid 1200 Phaethon 163 Adrastea 189 Annular eclipses, British, list of 22 Asteroid 1566 Icarus 169 Aegospotamos, Greece 416BC 280 Ant nebula 351 Asteroid 1620 Geographos 171 Aerogel 268 Antarctica 364 Asteroid 2001QE24 157 Aerolites 280 meteorites in 280 Asteroid 2008 TC3, collision with 169 Ahnighito meteorite 281 Antares 319 Asteroid 2060 Chiron 177 Airglow 291 Antennae galaxies 358 Asteroid 21 Lutetia 167 Airy, G. B. movements of Uranus 235 Antlia 376 Asteroid 216 Kleopatra 167 Airy, Sir George 142, 179 Antoniardo, E. M. 203 Asteroid 24 Themis 167 Aitken, R. 315 map of Mercury 95 Asteroid 279 Thule 165 Akatsuki 112 AP Librae 360 Asteroid 31005, Phaethon 273 Al Sufi 355, 361 Apennines, lunar 28 Asteroid 3200 Phaethon 170 Alba Patera 136 Apex of the Sun’s Way 23 Asteroid 3735 Cruithne 168 Alban Hill meteorite, 634BC 280 Aphrodite Terra 114 Asteroid 3753, Cruithne 27 Albor Tholus 136 Apohele 168 Asteroid 4179 Toutatis 171 Alcyonides 209 Apollo 15 30 Asteroid 511 Davida 167 Aldebaran 303 Apollo basin Asteroid 5145 Pholus 177 Aldrin, Buzz 34 Apus 376 Asteroid 704 Interamnia 167 Al-Falavi 108 Aquarius 377 Asteroid 719 Albert 157 Alfven waves 17 EZ Aquarii 293 Asteroid 8335 Damocles 178 Algol 319 Aquila 380 Asteroid 87 Sylvia 173 Ali Ibn Ridwan 335 Ara 382 Asteroid 944 Hidalgo 177 Allen, D. A. 228 m Arae, 4 planets of 312 Asteroid 951 Gaspra 171 Al-Ma’mun 526 Arab astronomy, Baghdad school 526 Asteroid 99942 Apophis, close approach 168 Alpher, Bethe, Gamow theory 364 Arachnoids 119 belts (table) 172 Alpher, Ralph 363 Arago, F. 128 of other stars?, z leporis 178 Alphonsine tables of planetary motion 526 Arches cluster 355 Asteroid classes 168 Al-Sufi 526 Arcturus 303, 304 Apollos 169 Altjira (148780) 253 past and future 298 families (table) 164, 165 Alvarez, Luiz and Walter 81 Arecibo Observatory 358 Hermes 157 Amalthea 189 Arend–Roland comet 1957 270 hunting 162 craters on 189 Ares Valles 135, 140 impact theory of extinctions 122 features (table) 189 Argelander, F. W. 323 impacts 169 gossamer ring 189 Argo Navis divided up 367 Lutetia, past by Rosetta 268 surface of 189 Aricebo observatory 306 Centaurs 174 Ambartsumian, Viktor 348 Aricebo Radio Telescope 42, 349 Asteroids connected with comets 163 American unltaviolet satellites 521 Ariel, features (table) 232 outside the main belt 156 Anaxagoras 4, 288 Aries 384 with satellites (table) 175 and Democritus 354 g Arietis 315 Asteroids, 588 Achilles 174 and lunar eclipses 45 Aristarchus 4, 526 also classed as comets 163 560 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89935-2 - Patrick Moore’s Data Book of Astronomy Edited by Patrick Moore and Robin Rees Index More information Index 561 Amor type (table) 172 Auroral noise 290 Bishop’s Ring 291 Centaurs (table) 177 ovals 289 Bjorgevskii, S. 361 classification of 164 Australia Radio Telescope 525 BL Lacertae objects 358 cometary 178 Black aurorae 290 Damocloids (table) 178 Baade, W. 169, 301, 305, 306, 357 Black drop 4, 108 diameters and absolute magnitudes (table) 168 Babcock 6 Black dwarf stars 303 encounters with (table) 171 Baby Boom galaxy 362 Black eye galaxy M64 362 first 100 main belt (table) 158–161 Baby Red Spot 182 Black hole at centre of Galaxy 307 first four (table) 157 Babylonian astronomy 526 formation 306 further out from Main Belt 174 Backwards galaxy NGC 4622 362 rotating 307 Geographos 42 Baily’s Beads 22 Black holes 306 identifications 157 Baldwin, Ralph 31 evaporating 307 influence of Jupiter 166 Ball, W. 203 isolated 307 Jupiter Trojans 174, 177 Barabaschev, N. 132 Black Saturday 22 largest 165 Barnard 2, P/177 264 Blanpain’s comet 265 Main Belt 156, 165 Barnard, E. E. 203 Blazars 358 Mars crossers 169 Barnard’s star 293, 297 Blaze star (T Coronae Borealis) 331 moving close to the Sun 169 Barnard’s star, reported planet 309 Blinking planetary nebula 351 names of 157 Bar-Nun, Akiva, analysis of Titan lakes 217 BL-Lacertae objects, nature 360 near Earth 1 Baroness de Podmaniczky 327 Blue Moons 25 near Earth class 168 Barr, J, TLP observation 33 Bode, J. E. 156, 224 nomenclature 157 Barstow, M. 303 Bode’s galaxy M81 362 notable (table) 162 Barwell meteorite 279, 282 Bode’s Law (table) 157 numbers of 156 my investigations 286 Bode’s Law 156, 245 orbits of 163 Barycentre, the 26 Boethin’s comet 269 potentially hazardous, list 169 Bauersfeld, W., Zeiss Planetarium 516 Bok globules 301, 352 satellites of 173 Bayer 349 Bok, Bart 301 searches, professional teams 162 Beagle 2 lander 141 Boles, Tom 335 space missions to 171 Beagle 2, failure of 141 Bolides 273 total mass of 156 Becker, A. and N. Kaib, discovery of 2006 272 254 Bond, G. P 20 Trojans (table) 176 Beckman, J. 20 Bond, W. and G. 203 Trojans 156 Beddgellert meteorite 282 Bondi, H. 365 vermin of the skies 156 Bedout High crater 286 Boomerang 364 Astraea 156 Australia 122 nebula 350 Astrometric binaries 319 Beer and Madler 127 Boo¨tes 387 Astronomers (list) 536–52 lunar map by 28 Borrelly’s Comet 268 Astronomers Royal (table) 508 Belt of Venus 291 Boulby Mine, Yorkshire, search for WIMPS 507 Astronomers Royal for Scotland (table) 508 Bennett’s comet 1970 270 Bovedy meteorite 282, 287 Astronomical nicknames (table) 339 mistaken as Israli war weapon 255 Boxhole crater, Australia 285 Astronomical Unit 1 Beppo Sax, gamma rays 518 Brandes and Benzenberg, meteor heights 273 Astronomy, history of 526 Berkovski, M. 23 Brezhina, A. 280 Atacama Desert observatories 507 Bessell, E. W., lunar measurements 28 Bright naked eye comets 1900–2010 271 Atalanta Regio 115 Bessell, F. W. 293 Britannica publication 1661 292 Atla Regio 115 and 61cygni 318 British Astronomical Association: Jupiter Atmosphere, lower, composition of Beta Pictoris, dust clouds around 522 Section 179 (table) 124 Beta Regio 115 British meteorites falls (table) 282 Atmosphere, structure of (table) 124 Betelgeux 304, 327 British Total Eclipses 23 Aumann, H. and P. Gillett 309 Bethe, H. 10, 301, 364 Brocchi’s cluster 370 Auriga 385 Bianchini, map of Venus 1727 109 Bronzites 280 z Aurigae 324 Biela’s comet, D/3 264 Brookhaven National Laboratory 12 Aurorae 8 panic 1832 255 Brorsen, Theodor 292 and sunspots 289 Biermann, L. 17 Brown dwarfs 302, 309 Australis 508 Big Bang 357 Buffham, J. 225 described by Fridtjof Nansen 290 term by Fred Hoyle 363 Buffon, conte de 121 in southern England 289 Big Crunch 365 Bug nebula 351 on other worlds 290 Bigg, K. E. and Jupiter’s radio waves 184 Buie, Marc, and surface of Pluto 248 Planum 137 Binary stars, spectroscopic binaries 318 Bunsen, R. 9 Aurorae, altitudes 289 Binary systems 293 Buren, Godfried 24 brilliance of (table) 290 numbers 318 Burgasser, A. 302 causes of 289 origins 319 Burke, B. and K. Franklin, radio waves colours of 290 postulated in 1766 318 from Jupiter 184 form and brilliance 289 types 319 Burney, Venetia, naming of Pluto 246 frequency 289 Biot, J. B., meteor shower at L’Aigle 280 Burnham, S. W. 315 legends and folklore 288 Birkeland, K. 289 Burnright, R. 519 odours from 290 Birr telescope 357 Bush, George W. 121 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89935-2 - Patrick Moore’s Data Book of Astronomy Edited by Patrick Moore and Robin Rees Index More information 562 Index Butterfly diagram, the 9 Centaurus A 360, 362, 520 Climate, variations in 125 Buvard, A., tables of Uranus 235 Centaurus X3 520 Cloverleaf 361 Centaurus Clusters and nebulae, first known (table) 339 Caelum 389 Omega Centauri black hole 307 CME 17 Caldwell catalogue 343–6 a Centauri 293, 309, 315 Coal Sack C90 nebula 352 Calendars, early 526 Cepheid period luminosity law 356 Coal Sack C99 353 Calichus, Andreas and comets 255 variables 303 COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer Callisto variables 328 Satellite) 364 Catenae 199 Cepheus 406 Coblenz and Lampland ‘violet layer of ’ 131 constitution of 199 g Cephei, presence of planet? 309 Cockell, C., Forward to Mars party 131 map 198 m Cephei (Garnet Star) 327 Colette, Aphrodite Terra 115 outer satellites of 199 Cerdic, King 22 Collins, S. 209 outermost Galilean 197 Cerenkov radiation 12 Colombo gap 203 possible underground ocean 199 Ceres 156, 166 Columba 411 ringed basins, Valhalla and Asgard 199 Cerro Tololo 302 Coma Berenices 412 small outer satellites: Themisto, Pasiphae, observatory 327 Comas Sola, J.