When I was looking for info on Quarks and gravitons for the power of ten thread I happened across Cornell's Ask an Astronomer site and This page was extremely interesting. I'm wondering what the Bad PhDers here would list as the Top ten Astronomy Questions.

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/topten.php
I think that one is silly and I don't believe it could be in the top 10
Hopefully I quoted these correctly.

So what are Bad Astronomy's Top Ten Astronomy Questions?
Surely they are not the same.

I am aware that the actual questions change over time so top that come to mind would be fine. In thinking about those Top Ten Questions have you noticed that, over time The questions are changing- are people learning more so that the questions are changing? Are the Questions the same ones as always or are they evolving to a higher level (public getting smarter)
I guess you could say- How successful is the BadAstronomer?

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why the moon is larger on the horizen?

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Yes I see that alot or a derrivative of the same question.

good one!

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What was this light in the sky?

Another Commenly asked here

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Unidentified Sky.

ok yes I can see that as pretty common

Thats 2

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Telecope questions maybe

How do I?
What should I?

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Ok How to issues.

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How do I find Planet X?

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Gee whiz, they were so close to the big one - what color is the Sun? Is the Sun that inconspicuous? ](*,) :wink:

Note, however, 20% of the questions are about color.

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Q: What is the life cycle of a star?

A: It is something that is studied very closely by science, because the unexamined life cycle isn't worth living.

Q: How do you measure the distance between Earth and the Sun?

A: String, Lots and lots of string.

Q: How do I build a model rocket?

A: Geez, just turn yourself in to Homeland Security right now and avoid the rush.

Q: What is a white hole?

A: Paris Hilton. Oh, wait, you said "hole"

Q: Will the sun go supernova in six years and destroy Earth?

A: Shhhhh!

Q: What color is each planet?

A: Reddish, gray, blue/green with bits of white and other colors, sickly yellow, pinky orange, blue, gray, some sort of green crap, milky janudiced something or other. The order is left as an exercise for the student. The Sol system is a decent one, but it's a fashion nightmare, darling.

Q: What color is Venus?

A: Oh, she's green with envy. She was at this, like, party on the Light Dimension, and she was flirting with that scamp Loki, and, like, Isis comes up all sultry like and steals him away from her! Oh, that- grrr! No wonder the icon for Isis is a cow!

Q: How far is each planet from Earth?

A: Vary far away. So far away from me, so far I just can’t see, so far away from me, you’re so far away from here.

Q: How critical is the Earth-Sun distance in maintaining our average temperatures on Earth?

A: Eh... there's some wiggle room.

Q: Is the distance from the Earth to the Sun changing?

A: YES! WE'RE CRASHING INTO THE SUN! AAAAAHHHHH! IT BUUURRRNNNSSSS!

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Thats so Funny!

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You guys forgot "can you read my sign?"
#-o
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You read his astrology article recently too , eh... =D>

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Most common questions I've had from friends/relatives/neighbours while observing:
1. What are you doing?
2. Can you find [insert object here]?
3. How far away is [insert object here]?
4. How do they know that [insert object here] is [insert distance here] away?
5. How much did that cost?
6. Why are you using a red light?
7. Do you do horoscopes?
8. Various oh-so-witty questions about Uranus.

I get asked how much a lot too, and how far away.

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Mars, Mercury, Earth, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, Uranus, Venus

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