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   A.00 The Internet and other information sources
    A.01 What are the sci.astro* newsgroups about? [1999-11-03]
    A.02 How do I subscribe to sci.astro*? [1998-02-28]
    A.03 What are the guidelines for posting on astronomy (sci.astro*)
         newsgroups? [1995-07-10] 
    A.04 What should I do if I see an article that doesn't follow
         these guidelines?  (What about cranks?) [1997-02-04]
    A.05 Can I get help on my homework from the Net? [1995-07-26]
    A.06 What are good Net sites for astronomy info and 
         images? [2003-04-27]
    A.07 How can I find contact addresses for 
          astronomers/observatories? [1996-12-04]
    A.08 Which observatories offer tours or public viewing?
         [1995-09-17]
    A.09 Is there a list of astro jokes? [1999-12-15]
    A.10 What are good books on astronomy (especially for beginners)?
         [1995-06-27] 
    A.11 Are there other sources of information? [1996-01-24]
    A.12 How can I find an astronomy club? [1996-01-24]
    A.13 Where can I find out about public lectures or star parties?
         [1995-09-17]

   B.00 General
    B.01 What good is astronomy anyway? [1997-08-06]
    B.02 What are the largest telescopes? [2001-02-04]
    B.03 What new telescopes/instruments are being built? [2000-01-01]
    B.04 What is the resolution of a telescope? [1995-08-23]
    B.05 What's the difference between astronomy and astrology?
         [1995-08-23]
    B.06 Is there scientific evidence for/against astrology?
         [1995-08-23]
    B.07 What about God and the creation? [1995-08-27]
    B.08 What kind of telescope should I buy? [2001-01-17]
    B.09 What are the possessive adjectives for the planets?
         [1995-12-05]
    B.10 Are the planets associated with days of the week?
         [2000-11-12]
    B.11 Why does the Moon look so big when it's near the 
         horizon? [1997-01-21]
    B.12 Is it O.K. to look at the Sun or solar eclipses using
         exposed film? CDs? [1996-11-20]
    B.13 Can stars be seen in the daytime from the bottom of a tall 
         chimney, a deep well, or deep mine shaft? [1996-06-14]
    B.14 Why do eggs balance on the equinox? [1996-06-14]
    B.15 Is the Earth's sky blue because its atmosphere is nitrogen
         and oxygen?  Or could other planets also have blue 
         skies? [1998-02-06]
    B.16 What are the Lagrange (L) points? [2003-10-18]
    B.17 Are humans affected psychologically and/or physically by
	 lunar cycles? [2000-06-03]
    B.18 How do I become an astronomer?  What school should I 
         attend? [1996-07-03]
    B.19 What was the Star of Bethlehem? [2002-05-04]
    B.20 Is it possible to see the Moon landing sites? [2002-05-07]

   C.00 Time, Calendars, and Terrestrial Phenomena
    C.01 When is 02/01/04? or is there a standard way of writing 
           dates? [2001-12-14]
    C.02 What are all those different kinds of time? [2002-05-07]
    C.03 How do I compute astronomical phenomena for my location?
         [2002-05-04]
    C.04 What's a Julian date? modified Julian date? [1998-05-06]
    C.05 Was 2000 a leap year? [2000-03-17]
    C.06 When will the new millennium start? [2001-01-01]
    C.07 Easter:
      07.1 When is Easter? [2001-08-14]
      07.2 Can I calculate the date of Easter? [1995-12-11]
    C.08 What is a "blue moon?" [2001-10-02]
    C.09 What is the Green Flash (or Green Ray)? [1999-01-01]
    C.10 Why isn't the earliest Sunrise (and latest Sunset) on the
         longest day of the year? [2002-01-30]
    C.11 How do I calculate the phase of the moon? [2001-08-14]
    C.12 What is the time delivered by a GPS receiver? [2002-05-07]
    C.13 Why are there two tides a day and not just one? [1999-12-15]

   D.00 Astrophysics
    D.01 Do neutrinos have rest mass?  What if they do? [2002-05-04]
    D.02 Have physical constants changed with time? [1997-02-04]
    D.03 What is gravity? [1998-11-04]
    D.04 Does gravity travel at the speed of light? [1998-05-06]
    D.05 What are gravitational waves? [1997-06-10]
    D.06 Can gravitational waves be detected? [2000-08-31]
    D.07 Do gravitational waves travel at the speed of light?
         [1996-07-03]
    D.08 Why can't light escape from a black hole? [1995-10-05]
    D.09 How can gravity escape from a black hole? [1996-01-24]
    D.10 What are tachyons?  Are they real? [1995-10-02]
    D.11 What are magnetic monopoles?  Are they real? [1996-07-03]
    D.12 What is the temperature in space? [1998-04-14]
    D.13 Saturn's rings, proto-planetary disks, accretion disks---Why
	are disks so common? ]99-07-18]
 
   E.00 Sun, Moon, and Planets
    E.01 How did the solar system form? [2000-07-15]
    E.02 Has anyone attempted to discern details of the star that went
         supernova and formed our local group of stars? [2002-05-04]
    E.03 What is the "Solar Neutrino Problem"? [1997-07-01]
    E.04 Could the Sun be part of a binary (multiple) star system?
         [1995-08-27]
    E.05 When will the Sun die?  How? [1995-08-23]
    E.06 What happens to the planets when the Sun dies? [2000-03-17]
    E.07 Could the Sun explode? [1995-07-07]
    E.08 How are solar system objects and features named? [1995-11-29]
    E.09 Where can I find pictures and planetary data? (ref)
    E.10 Could Jupiter become a star? [1995-07-07]
    E.11 Is Pluto a planet?  Is Ceres?  Is Titan? [1995-08-18]
    E.12 Additional planets:
      12.1 What about a planet (Planet X) outside Pluto's orbit?
         [2000-05-21]
      12.2 What about a planet inside Mercury's orbit? [1996-11-20]
    E.13 Won't there be catastrophes when the planets align in the
         year 2000? [2000-07-15]
    E.14 Earth-Moon system:
      14.1 Why doesn't the Moon rotate? [1997-10-01]
      14.2 Why does the Moon always show the same face to the 
           Earth? [1997-10-01]
      14.3 Is the Moon moving away from the Earth? (and why is Phobos
           moving closer to Mars?) [1997-06-04]
      14.4 What was the origin of the Moon? [1998-11-04]
    E.15 What's the difference between a solar and lunar eclipse?
         Where can I find more information about eclipses?
         [2001-01-17]
    E.16 What's the Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt? [1998-02-28]
    E.17 Asteroid Impacts
      17.1 What would be the effects of an asteroid impact on the
         Earth? [1998-04-14]
      17.2 What can we do about avoiding impacts? [1998-04-14]
    E.18 What's the difference between meteoroids, meteors, and
         meteorites? [1998-04-14]
    E.19 How do we know that meteorites are from the Mars? (or the
         Moon?) [2002-05-04] 
 
   F.00 Extraterrestrial Life
    F.01 What is life? [1997-09-03]
    F.02 Life in the Solar System
      02.1 Is there life on Mars? [1996-09-03]
      02.2 Is there life in Jupiter (or Saturn)? [1996-09-03]
      02.3 Is there life on Jupiter's moon, Europa? [1996-09-03]
      02.4 Life on Titan? [1997-08-05]
    F.03 What is the Drake equation? [1995-10-04]
    F.04 What is the Fermi paradox? [1995-12-28]
    F.05 Could we detect extraterrestrial life? [1999-09-15]
    F.06 How far away could we detect radio transmissions?
         [1996-09-03]
    F.07 What's a Dyson sphere? [1997-06-04]
    F.08 What is happening with SETI now? [1998-01-31]
    F.09 Why search for extraterrestrial intelligence using radio?
	 Why not <fill in the blank> method? [2000-01-01]
    F.10 Why do we assume that other beings must be based on carbon?
	Why couldn't organisms be based on other substances?
        [2001-03-20]
    F.11 Could life occur on an interstellar planet? [2003-04-27]

   G.00 Stars
    G.01 What are all those different kinds of stars?
      01.1 General overview and main sequence stars [1996-01-02]
      01.2 White dwarfs [2003-04-27]
      01.3 Neutron stars [2003-04-27]
      01.4 Black holes [2003-04-27]
    G.02 Are there any green stars? [1995-12-28]
    G.03 What are the biggest and smallest stars? [1998-06-03]
    G.04 What fraction of stars are in multiple systems? [1995-06-27]
    G.05 Where can I get stellar data (especially distances)?
         [2003-05-08]
    G.06 Which nearby stars might become supernovae? [2000-02-20]
    G.07 What will happen on Earth if a nearby star 
         explodes? [1998-02-11]
    G.08 How are stars named?  Can I name/buy one? [1995-12-28]
    G.09 Do other stars have planets?
    G.10 What happens to the planets when a planetary nebula is
         formed?  Do they get flung out of the solar system? [2002-05-04]
    G.11 How far away is the farthest star? [1999-01-01]
    G.12 Do star maps (or galaxy maps) correct for the motions of the
         stars? [2003-10-18]

   H.00 Galaxies, Clusters, and QSO's
    H.01 How many stars, galaxies, clusters, QSO's etc. in the
         Universe? [1997-08-06]
    H.02 Is there dark matter in galaxies? [1997-12-02]
    H.03 What is the Hubble constant?  What is the best value?
         [1995-07-19]
    H.04 How are galaxy distances measured? [1995-06-29]
    H.05 When people speak of galaxies X billion light years
         away, does this mean they are that far away now or were that
         far away when the light left them? [1997-08-06]
    H.06 What are QSO's ("quasars")? [1995-06-29]
    H.07 Are the QSO's really at their redshift distances?
         [2003-02-18]
    H.08 What about apparent faster-than-light motions? [1995-06-29]
    H.09 What's the Local Group? [1999-05-19]

   I.00 Cosmology and the Universe [1998-02-28]
    I.01 What do we know about the properties of the Universe? 
    I.02 Why do astronomers favor the Big Bang model of the Universe?
    I.03 Where is the center of the Universe?
    I.04 What do people mean by an "open," "flat," or "closed"
         Universe?
    I.05 If the Universe is expanding, what about me? or the Earth? or
 	 the Solar System?
    I.06 What is inflation?
    I.07 How can the Big Bang (or inflation) be right?  Doesn't it
	 violate the idea that nothing can move faster than light?
	 (Also, can objects expand away from us faster than the speed
	 of light?)
    I.08 If the Universe is only 10 billion years old, how can we see
	 objects that are now 30 billion light years away?  Why isn't
	 the most distant object we can see only 5 billion light years
	 away?
    I.09 How can the oldest stars in the Universe be older than the
	 Universe?
    I.10 What is the Universe expanding into?
    I.11 Are galaxies really moving away from us or is space-time just
	 expanding?
    I.12 How can the Universe be infinite if it was all concentrated
         into a point at the Big Bang?
    I.13 Why haven't the cosmic microwave background photons outrun the
	 galaxies in the Big Bang? 
    I.14 Can the cosmic microwave background be redshifted starlight?
    I.15 Why is the sky dark at night? (Olbers' paradox) [2001-10-02]
    I.16 What about objects with discordant redshifts?
    I.17 Since energy is conserved, where does the energy of
         redshifted photons go? [1998-12-03]
    I.18 There are different ways to measure distances in cosmology?
	[1999-07-06]

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