I'm pretty sure he didn't say "Astrological"...

[Starlionblue]

So I was reading this: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/05/11/space.venus.reut/index.html

and came across this:

"Something wonderful, something marvelous is happening on June 8th and will be witnessed and experienced by millions of people all over the world," Gordon Bromage, a professor of astronomy at England's University of Central Lancashire, told a news conference Tuesday.

"It is an extremely rare astrological event."

regarding the Venus transit.


How hard can it be to copy something down and NOT change it?

[ToSeek]

I was thinking (or at least hoping) the same thing.

[milli360]

I'll bet Dr. Bromage gets a few emails about this--I expect it'll change soon. :)

[The Shade]

Are we sure this isn't a spelling error on the part of the journalist, or that said journalist even knows there's a difference between astrology and astronomy?

[gethen]

Are we sure this isn't a spelling error on the part of the journalist, or that said journalist even knows there's a difference between astrology and astronomy?
The most likely explanation is that the journalist is at fault. It's happened before.

[jfribrg]

As long as we're talking about astrology, are the astrologers getting into as much a frenzy about the transit as the astronomers ( especially the amateurs) are?

[Master258]

As long as we're talking about astrology, are the astrologers getting into as much a frenzy about the transit as the astronomers ( especially the amateurs) are?

I don't think so, at least I haven't heard much.