Here are some suggested words related to black holes (μελανές οπές in Modern Greek): melanopology: the study of black holes apomelanope: the farthest point in an orbit around a black hole perimelanope: the closest an object gets to a black hole.

Pluto was gone for just a couple of days ... Many Very Evil Me Just Screwed Up Nature

Your definition of apogee triggered my who orbits who pedantry, with respect to aphelion.

Well, there are no bears in the Antarctica, but there are bears in the southern hemisphere. sun bears. Great episode, I just wanted you to know

I’ve been enjoying Rob’s podcasts for some time now and am delighted with this collaboration with Jess. I was about twelve years old when the Beatle’s White Album came out and I found so many intriguing aspects of it, including a little shout of “ey up” between bungalow bill and while my guitar. I of course had to play it backwards to discover that the phrase was “oh yeah.” Well, now I have an alternative hypothesis to consider. Is Liverpool considered part of the Midlands you refer to? Is this a greeting one might hear from a Beatle? From what I just heard on KZbin, the ey up is still there but at the end of bungalow bill.

I've never fallen for a team before, but now here I am.

You mentioned Ursa Major and showed Ursa Minor. oops

When our daughter was tiny, just shy of 3, she came to the kitchen without her slippers on. I admonished her: "You know you're not supposed to come into the kitchen with your bare feet!" She looked at me quizzically and delared: " these not bear feet, these my feet!"

Urectum.

22:03 "Our lady's way" referring to the Moon - this is also something that does not properly work in German. I would even say we have a lyrical miscongruence here. The Moon is "der Mond" in German, but it has masculine gender ("der"). In turn it is "die Sonne" (feminine gender) for the Sun. Hence, people don't imagine the Moon as a woman in German but would rather do that with the Sun.

"Quick" as in the point where your fingernails are still attached to your fingers. You cut your nails back to the point where they are "quick" i.e. living tissue.

Her nose is fabulous!

14:11 that’s an interesting tattoo on Jess’s forearm. Would I be correct in identifying it as a fishing lure?

I hope I can say this, but Jess and Rob you two are absolutely entertaining and nice together. You provide us an education in a pleasant and humorous way. And for that, I am grateful! ☺️

33:00 Former German mnemonic phrase: "Mein Vater erklärt mir jeden Sonntag unsere neun Planeten" (My father explains to me every Sunday our nine planets). Former, because Pluto is not a planet anymore but a dwarf planet. (Yes, I'm OK with that. If Pluto complains, I'll send our Moon and let it kick that little rock out into space.)

In Swedish, the wave of water is a "våg". Pronounced pretty much as your "waw" but with a hard g, like "dog", in the end.

We I learned the names of the planets in grade school (primary school), I didn't yet know the word "anus", so I didn't snicker (that's how we spelled snigger).

About "Uranus" in German: It is always stressed on the U, never on the a. Interestingly, there would be a similar pun in German like in English, as an "Ur-Anus" would mean an "ancient anus", but this never caught on. I suppose there are two problems with that: 1. Names for body parts and medical issues are widely translated to German terms (note the Krebs/cancer correspondence). Hence, the word "anus" has a somewhat medical connotation and feels like bragging with medical terms. The typical term used in German is "After" (from OHG aftero), maybe also "Po-Loch" (buttocks hole). In recent times, "anal" has become more known as a term, so this may be the case for anus in tow. 2. Even if Anus was used more widely, the pronunciation does not work. First, the Ur-Anus would imply a glottal stop before the A [ʔu:r ʔa:nus]. Second, a composition with "Ur-" regularly shifts the stress on that prefix, so we're back to the stress on the U. So instead of two different stresses, we would get one version with a glottal stop in the word, and one without it. This is a pretty weak base for a pun.

Jess, I'm right there with ya in wishing I'd bent my school curriculum toward pursuing astronomy; in my case, astrophysics. Now in my capacity as a comic book artist, I scratch that itch by infusing the cosmic sci-fi elements of my stories with as much real-world scientific/astronomical principle as I can.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge Always EABDFA treble clef cant remember bass right now

The Canary Islands were named for the wild dogs that were found there, but the birds, that also inhabit the islands, were named for the islands that were by that time called the Canaries. Or at least so I’ve heard.

OOH! It's the Sour Patch kids ! Now I see (took a magnifying glass)

From the first section, Irish is one example of a language in which the name for the ground/the soil and the name for Earth as a planet aren't the same. For the ground itself, or land in general, it's 'talamh', and for soil the word is 'cré'. For the planet we say 'An Domhan', or 'An Chruinne', meaning something like the world, the globe.

Can I humbly request for a KZbin short to be made about the puppis Uranus joke at 14:40?

Y’all missed a great word, Syzygy. I am only aware of it because we had one when I was a kid in the 80’s. 😊

I have also heard that port comes from an important, (at the time when larboard changed names) commander, who had a great love of the drink, port, and decided that since the port light is red it should be called after the drink!???

Very interesting. Did you know that glas of Glasgow means green. Thought you might be interested.

Surely the name for the submarine Nautilus comes from the sea creature of the cephalapod family also called nautilus ?

Damn yous smart Jesse, feilcidades! You always make me take notes.

French mnemonic phrases for the solar system fitting the astro-spatial theme : "Mon vaisseau te mènera jusque sur une nouvelle planète" (Mercure, Vénus, la Terre, Mars, Jupiter, Saturne, Uranus, Neptune et Pluton) meaning My spaceship will take you to a new planet, or, without Pluton: "Me voici toute mignonne, je suis une nébuleuse" meaning Here I Am All Cute, I'm A Nebula. 🪐

Shouldn't "excentric" be "eccentric" now? Is the former a former spelling no longer in use?

Libra is the scales of Lady Justice (Themis, Dike, etc). "13th sign" is Ophiuchus, added when modern astroNOMical zodiac adjusted to match the constellations better; astroLOGical zodiacs still only recognize only the 12. And shame! you missed "east" with its derivation from PIE for "dawn" or "sunrise", VERY common spacey word!

I thought Jupiter meant sky father.

The spelling of eccentric you used. I've never seen it with an x before.

I think Jess has a very nice nose. Was it hand picked?

Jupiter may have been one of the initial set of words that first led William Jones to conclude that the precursor of Skanskrit, Greek, and Latin (all cognate languages) was a common tongue we now call proto-indo-european. In Sanskrit the primary male god was dyaus pitr while in Latin the borrowing from Greek was initially Zeus Pater (father god) which morphed into Deus Pater and then concatenated into Deuspater and hence finally our Jupiter.

I prefer the name "Terra" over "Earth". Referring to myself as a "Terran" seems way cooler than "Earthling".

I love these people!

Do you really spell it "excentric"? I've always spelled it "eccentric". So does my spell check.

YA isn't a genre, it's a demographic. Please don't be dismissive of the majority of books written for teenagers.

Rob. As an English lady who likes people to speak properly, I was disappointed when I heard you say you spoke with the northern flat 'A'. Initially I thought your speech was pleasant. You sound well educated and that flat A really lets you down.

The Roman version of Uranus is Caelus. Who is the source of words like celestial.

Your descriptions of the difference between asteroids, meteoroids, and comets are inaccurate. Asteroids tend to be made of more rock and metal than ice, but that's not universal. Comets are called that because they orbit at least partially close enough to the Sun that the volatile parts of their makeup can be warmed and sublime or boil off and make a shiny tail. (Actually, usually two tails.) They tend to have more ice than metal and rock. But a lot of the reason why that's the case is that the asteroids were often similar to the comets, but they orbit close enough to the Sun that the extra warmth has already driven off those volatile constituents. Meteoroids are those rocks that are on a collision course with... something. Many of them are asteroids.

A slight correction on the meaning of apogee. It's not the moons furthest point from the sun. It's any any orbiting body's furthest point from that which it orbits. So the moon's apogee is its furthest point from Earth.

am I the only one who finds "urinous" just as silly as "your anus" ?

9:15 - Jess, re your comment about if you were better at math ..., it strikes me that math can be rather boring, but what you and Rob are doing in tracking down meanings and origins of words is far more fascinating. I discovered I had a talent for learning languages in the army. I was trained as a Khmer linguist and I discovered on various overseas tours that I just soaked in the local language (e.g., Korean and Thai). Since then, I've picked up a smattering of Spanish and Italian. Each sounds like a different style of music to my ear. Oh, and British English! What a lovely symphonic language! So math, science and all that is OK, but language is bliss! Please do keep me blissful.

i was taught that the word astronomy was the joining of the word star with name, meaning astronomy is the naming of stars

Your point on cancer reminded me that "canker," as in canker sore also derives from the same. Love this and your respective channels. English is the galactic Borg of languages. You will be assimilated.

Mother very easily made a jam sandwich using no peanuts. The "a" is for asteroids. Mercury is the only one of the seven ancient planets that kept its metal, but they all had one. The obvious ones are Sun=gold (Apollo and Helios--I think Apollo is light), Moon=silver (Artemis and various other goddesses), Mars=iron and Mercury =quicksilver. Saturn presumably got lead since it moves slower across the sky than the other planets except the Sun. Venus got copper presumably because in ancient times mirrors were made of copper or bronze. That's also why her astrological sign is a mirror. By elimination, that leaves tin for Jupiter, but it's worth noting that in ancient Greek dramas, thunder was made by shaking sheets of tin.

Speaking of Earth. I always found it funny that in the intro to the Flash Gordon movie they have an "Earthquake" sign that flashes to indicate that the aliens are causing Earthquakes. Obviously aliens who just found earth shouldn't be using a word derived from earth. I know it's done because that's the English term but I still find it weird.