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Published short essays on ASTRONOMY by Joel Marks
"Not with a Whimper, but a Bang." Philosophy Now, issue no. 79, June/July 2010. "Our Whirling World." Mercury, vol. 36, no. 4, Fall 2007, pp. 28-31. "What's the Big Hoopla about Seeing a UFO?" New Haven Register, November 29, 2007. "A Planet by any other Name: an exercise in astrometaphysics." Think, winter 2007, pp. 101-4. "Philosophical Astronomy." Philosophy Now, issue no. 58, November/December 2006, p 48. "Reckoning Might Come from Sky." New Haven Register, April 13, 2006. "Discovery of 10th Planet May Mean There Really Are Only Eight." New Haven Register, August 3, 2005. Proposal for a new kind of planetarium show. Planetarian 31: 4 (4), December 2002. "The Ultimate Sky." Sky and Telescope 104:5 (10), November 2002. "Going Lightly." Natural History, Letters, November 2001. "STAR NOTES." New Haven Register, monthly, September 1999 -- June 2001. (See below.) "Convert Titans to Protect Earth from Asteroids." New Haven Register, May 28, 1998. "Career of Brilliant Geologist Cut Short." New Haven Register, July 28, 1997. "City's Lights Can Confound Comet Lovers." New Haven Register, March 4, 1997. "Despite Relative Safety of Earth, Jupiter Makes
You Stop and Think." "Astronomer Spreads Pearls of Wisdom." New Haven Register, May 4, 1994. "Common Sense Sometimes at Odds with Reason." New Haven Register, April 11, 1991. "Smudge in Sky Shows How Far the Eye Can See." New Haven Register, November 15, 1990.
"Make contact with Vega; watch the scorpion for Antares and his rival." September 2, 1999 . "Use stars, planets as a heavenly compass." October 7, 1999 . "Leonid shower blasts through with as many as 1,000 meteors an hour." November 4, 1999 . "December's a month for dippers; Diana's shine lights up the solstice." December 2, 1999 . "Moon slips into Earth's shadow and wears mask of Mars." January 6, 2000 . "Star light, star bright: There's a bunch of them in the sky tonight." February 3, 2000 . "3 planets dance with the moon, while the Lion and Bear soar." April 6, 2000 . "7 'planets' in rare conjunction; arc your way to spring stars." May 4, 2000 . "Summer twilights ahead; big planets make a morning comeback." June 1, 2000 . "Reach out and catch a view of distant Uranus and a close-up asteroid." July 6, 2000 . "Milky Way galaxy is candy for the eyes this month, if weather behaves." August 3, 2000 . "Fly by night with star birds Cygnus and Aquila this month." September 7, 2000 . "Earlier nightfalls mean more celestial fun for stargazers." October 5, 2000 . "Venus, Jupiter and Saturn offer a planetary triple play this month." November 2, 2000 . "Moon will take a bite out of the sun on Christmas Day." December 7, 2000 . "Space station shines bright in nighttime sky." January 4, 2001 . "Orion stands tall in the middle of the evening sky this month." February 1, 2001 . "Venus sets behind the sun, but comes up ahead." March 1, 2001 . "Jupiter and Saturn are moving, but not going anywhere." April 5, 2001 . "Big Dipper dominates the spring skies." May 3, 2001 . "Nothing can rival Mars' brilliance now." June 7, 2001 .
See also: “Stones and Fish Falling from the Sky.” Various episodes of "The Professors" and "Student Scene."
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