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Proper Pronunciation: Do you say Beetlejuice or Betelguase?

April 22, 2008 by David Dickinson  
Filed under Astronomers' Tales

Quaoar- Courtesy of NASA.
The astronomical world has its share of tongue twisting names. Much of this is no doubt due to the hodge-podge system that has been cobbled together over the ages… current convention gives us Roman planets, Greek constellations and Arabic star names.