SpaceWordGame

A fun way to get up to speed on space jargon, by proposing better meanings for exciting-sounding words from way way up beyond the atmosphere. There are many fabulous words used in the space business every day -- bring them into your workplace with you, fresh with new meanings, and impress your co-workers. With a nod to Douglas Adams and John Lloyd who did something much more powerful for placenames, this was inspired by The Snowball Herminator, who takes all credit and no responsibility.

2011-01-25

Zwicky

Fritz Zwicky was a Swiss astronomer who spent most of his professional life at Caltech making important theoretical and observational contributions. Mostly Zwicky is known for some of the more weird stuff in astronomy - supernovae, neutron stars, and galaxies acting as gravitational lenses. From 1961 to 1968 he and his colleagues published a 6-volume "Catalogue of galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies", hence the "Zwicky Catalogue".

Fritz Zwicky (from Wikipedia)

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Unknown25 Jan 2011, 13:29:00
A standard inter-galactic unit of measurement exactly equal to 206265 AU, or approximately 3.26 light-years.
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2011-01-25

Zwicky

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