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  Astronomical naming conventions - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Astronomers need to be able to assign systematic designations to unambiguously identify all of these objects, and at the same time give names to the most interesting objects and, where relevant, features of those objects.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is the body recognized by astronomers worldwide as the naming authority for astronomical bodies.
These names were based on a system of nomenclature developed in the late 19th century by the Italian astronomer Giovanni V. Schiaparelli (1879) and expanded in the early 20th century by Eugene M. Antoniadi (1929), a Greek-born astronomer working at Meudon, France.
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 MSN Encarta - Astrology
Astrologers believe that the position of astronomical bodies at the exact moment of a person’s birth and the subsequent movements of the bodies reflect that person’s character and, therefore, his or her destiny.
Astrologers create charts called horoscopes that map the position of astronomical bodies at certain times, such as when a person is born.
These people may have observed that certain astronomical bodies, particularly the Sun, affected the change of seasons and the success of crops.
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 * Star - (Astronomy): Definition
Astronomers classify three types of clusters: globular clusters, open clusters and associations.
A meteoroid is the small body that produces the streak of light.
It was first glimpsed by 17th century astronomers, who thought that it was a bruise on the surface of a hard planet, or an explosion in a star.
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 Planets, astronomical bodies that orbit in the solar system and serve as astrological signs
While studying the sky, ancient astronomers observed that while most of the stars maintain fixed relative positions, there were a few heavenly bodies that obviously changed their positions in relation to each other and to the greater number of so-called fixed stars.
A small body that is the precursor of a planet in the early stages of solar system development, or the fragmented result of a cataclysmic collision between a planet and another celestial body.
A body resembling a planet; a name sometimes given to the minor planets or asteroids.
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There will even be an article on earth-impact hazard, the science of predicting the probability of astronomical bodies hitting the planet.
A number of notable people will receive their own Britannica articles for the first time, including U.S. Senator John Kerry, novelist and Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and philosopher John Rawls.
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