Re: query

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From: Bruce Watson
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:52

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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'?)

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.

-- 
Bruce Watson (wats@scicom)  Tumbra, Zorkovick; Sparkula zoom krackadomando.

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From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
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Subject: Re: query
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