# Yet another appearance by the Bad Astronomer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-appearance-by-the-bad-astronomer/127310>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 6, 2002, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-appearance-by-the-bad-astronomer/127310 "2002-09-06T17:29:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-appearance-by-the-bad-astronomer/127310/1 "2002-09-06T17:29:14Z")

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My Yahoo! news page today had a cool headline: [Top 5 Cosmic Myths](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=96&e=3&cid=96&u=/space/20020903/sc_space/top_5_cosmic_myths). And who is the writer?

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> By Philip Plait, [SPACE.com](http://www.space.com)

Getting tired of us bringing it up every time yet, Phil? 😃

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-appearance-by-the-bad-astronomer/127310/2 "2002-09-06T19:23:33Z")

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_Woo-hoo!_ I mean, _Yahoo!_ Good job.

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-appearance-by-the-bad-astronomer/127310/3 "2002-09-06T21:04:14Z")

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I finally managed to get my hands on a copy of his book last week - here I was disappointed because my alma mater’s bookstore didn’t have one in the science section, only to realize later that they had a **separate** astronomy section. :smack: Very engaging and well-written text; I’d thought it’d only be a slight brush-up for me, having a fair education in science in college, but it was extremely educational.

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**Author:** ![The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bad_Astronomer)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2002, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-appearance-by-the-bad-astronomer/127310/4 "2002-09-08T22:18:33Z")

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Nuts. I posted about this a couple of days ago, andth elag ate my reply!

Anyway, thanks for the kudos folks. And yes, writers _hate_ it when people mention their work. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2002, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-appearance-by-the-bad-astronomer/127310/5 "2002-09-09T01:55:41Z")

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I just bought the Bad Astronomy book approximately 25 minutes ago. I would have bought it sooner, but yesterday was a new moon and I didn’t wish to anger Thoth, the Egyptian Moon God, by discussing information about him while his back was turned. It’s bad luck, you know.