Table of contents for Many skies : alternative histories of the sun, moon, planets, and stars / Arthur Upgren.

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Contents
Introduction										 	
Part I	The Sun and the Moon				 
Chapter 1	Our Three Moons. 							 7
Chapter 2	Within a Triple Star.							 22	
Chapter 3	Our Backward Stellar Magnitude System				 41
Chapter 4	An Improper Proper Motion.						 46
Chapter 5	All Our Yesterdays						 	 53
Chapter 6	We Are Alone. 							 62
Part II		The Planets
Chapter 7	The Rings of Earth							 76	
Chapter 8	Next Door to a Giant. 							 82 
Chapter 9 	Double Planet.								 94
Chapter 10	Debris in the Solar System.						 102 
Chapter 11 	Seasons of Paradox. 							 113
Chapter 12	More Than One Pluto.							 121
Part III		The Stars
Chapter 13	What if the Sun were Red? or Blue? 					 126
Chapter 14	The Vernal Equinox Lies in Virgo. 					 134
Chapter 15	Vega and Deneb Change Places. 					 143
Chapter 16	The Pleiades Star Cluster is as Close as the Hyades. 		 149
Chapter 17	The Great Popcorn Balls.						 156
Chapter 18	The Milky Way Lies along our Equator. 				 165
Chapter 19	We Are Alone II. 							 173 
Part IV 	Homemade Skies
Chapter 20	Ring of Rubbish.							 179 
Chapter 21 	The Tangled Skein of Celestial Mechanics					 184
Chapter 22	A Second Chance. 							 187
Chapter 23	Chicxulub, the Worst Sky of All.					 205
Bibliography										 219
Index




Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Solar system Miscellanea, Astronomy Miscellanea