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Re: New Constellations?
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#2200226 - 02/18/08 11:32 AM
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Big W? Why not Big M? 
Eventually the actual shape of the constellations themselves (let alone their names) will change, so much that the original patterns seen in the constellation simply can no longer be perceived, except perhaps by cubists like Picasso! Of course, those movements occur over tens of thousands of years or more. I wonder if any of the current constellation names will still be in popular use that far into the future, despite bearing little resemblance to the patterns the ancients once saw...
(Of course by then, we will be the "ancients"!)
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Re: New Constellations?
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#2203090 - 02/19/08 02:49 PM
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Eventually the actual shape of the constellations themselves (let alone their names) will change ... over tens of thousands of years or more.
(Of course by then, we will be the "ancients"!)
People then will have other things to say about us "ancients": the constellation boundaries will bear no resemblance to their lines of R.A. and declination. Current star charts already show this drift. People will have to explain that Polaris got its name because it was the pole star back in "ancient" times, even though precession was known.
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