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- From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
- Newsgroups: sci.misc
- Subject: Re: query
- Message-ID: <26281@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 18:52:40 GMT
- References: <BtJKqG.I1p@world.std.com+
- Organization: Alpha Science Computer Network, Denver, Co.
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- In article <BtJKqG.I1p@world.std.com+ fhapgood@world.std.com (Fred Hapgood) writes:
- +What other names does our solar system have besides 'the solar
- +system'? Our sun is called Sol and our galaxy the Milky Way,
- +and presumably both have professional identifiers as well that specify
- +a relationship to a class of objects of interest to astronomers.
- +(Which I would also like to know; what do astronomers call 'Sol'?)
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- Professional astronomers call the solar system the "solar system".
- The Milky Way is called the "Milky Way" and the Sun is known as the "Sun".
- The purpose of terminology is to prevent confusion. No one is
- confused when solar system, milky way and sun are used in the astronomical
- community.
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- Bruce Watson (wats@scicom) Tumbra, Zorkovick; Sparkula zoom krackadomando.
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