Ep. 657: Astronomical Naming Schemes
Astronomy Cast
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Is There a Cross-Cultural List?
There were only 1500 to 2000 stars that could be seen and cataloged by the naked eye. So we have a few stars like Betelgeuse, Cirrus, that have these names that are words. And everything else, luckily, just got cataloged. I'm sure there's some really cool names that the aboriginals in Australia came up with for stars and things like that. It would be great to sort of have the whole list.
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