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<h1 align="center">Index</h1>
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<p><tei-ms:orth><b>Calippusyclus</b></tei-ms:orth>
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A cyclus used by the Greeks in their timesystem which was based on the movement of the moon and the sun, it lasts 76 years or 940 lunations, this is 27759 days. The cyclus started 330 B.C. and was used by astronomers for two centuries.
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<p><tei-ms:orth><b>Callisto</b><tei-ms:orth>
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Satelite (moon) of the planet <a href="jupiter.htm">Jupiter</a>.</p>
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<p><tei-ms:orth><b>Catastrophetheory</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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Theory that says that during the geological past of earth, life was periodicaly distroyed by large, global catastrophies (earthquakes, vulcanic eruptions, floods) to return in a different form.
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<p><tei-ms:orth><b>Cepheides</b></tei-ms:orth>
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Name for two totally different groups of object:
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a. a at 15 november occuring meteorswarm in the sign of the zodiac Cepheus
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b. a class of pulsing changing stars named after 5 Cephei, the prototype of the Cepheis.
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<tei-ms:entry><p><tei-ms:orth>
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Ceres</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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One of the brightest planetoids, the first to be discovered ( by Piazzi at
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Palermo at 1 jan. 1801).</p></tei-ms:entry>
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Chandler, period of</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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The period with which the rotation of the earth is counterclockwise around <a href="earth.htm">
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Earths</a> axis.</p></tei-ms:entry>
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Chandrasekharlimit</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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Named after S. Chandrasekhar, the maximum mass for white dwarfs. When the mass becomes larger then this critical mass (approx. 1,4 solarmasses), the star will colapse into a neutronstar or a black hole due to the fact that there can't be a hydrostatic balance.</p></tei-ms:entry>
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Chiron</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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A object rotating around the sun, discovered at the first of november 1977 by C. Kowal, with an estimated diametre of 500 km.</p></tei-ms:entry>
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Chromosphere</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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One of the layers in the atmosphere of the sun of other stars, lying ontop
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of the photosphere.</p></tei-ms:entry>
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Cluster</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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A group of physiologicaly the same stars. A cluster or swarm of galaxies means such a group of extragalactic systems, containing 100-10000 galaxies, for instance the Comacluster and the Virgocluster. A group of clusters form a supercluster.</p></tei-ms:entry>
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<b>Coma</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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The thin gascloud which is located around the core of a comet.</p></tei-ms:entry>
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Comacluster</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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A very large spacious group of extragalactic galaxies in the sign of the zodiac Hoofdhaar van Bernice.</p></tei-ms:entry>
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Comet</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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See : <a href="main.htm">solarsystem</a></p></tei-ms:entry>
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Compton-effect</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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The difusion of x-rays to free electrons, during which these are submitted
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to a revulsion and take over part of te impulse and energy of the radiation.</p></tei-ms:entry>
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Conjunction</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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Scematic representation of both conjunctions of <a href="mercury.htm">Mercury</a>, the (upper)conjunction of
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<a href="mars.htm"> Mars</a> and the (lower)conjunction of the <a href="moon.htm">Moon</a>.</p></tei-ms:entry>
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Corona</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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A vast, thin and hot gasshell around certain types of stars, among which the sun. The suns corona can be seen as a garland of rays during a total solar eclipse.</p></tei-ms:entry>
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Cosmic radiation</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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Radiation that penetrates the atmosphere of the earth as primary radiation,
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where it reacts with the atmosphere and forms secundary radiation.</p></tei-ms:entry>
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Cosmos</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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An acronym for 'the universe'</p></tei-ms:entry>
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Cosmology</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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The study of everthing there is to know about the universe</p></tei-ms:entry>
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Crab nebula</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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Luminescent nebula in the sign of the zodiac Bull, made up from remnants of
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a supernova, that, according to chinese history, take place in the year 1054.
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These remnants have been identified as comming from a supernova</p></tei-ms:entry>
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Cygnides</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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Swarm of meteorites with radiant in the sign of the zodiac Swan (Cygnus).</p></tei-ms:entry>
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Cygnus A</b></tei-ms:orth><br>
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The first dotshaped radiosource discovered(1 946), located in the sign of the zodiac Swan.</p></tei-ms:entry>
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