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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (12142)	4/20/2002 10:20:02 AM
From: briskit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

A RARE DANCE OF PLANETS A grand and beautiful lineup of all the bright naked-eye planets -- Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn -- is taking shape in the western sky at dusk. Throughout April and May these five worlds will form and reform new patterns as they move against the background stars. There is no single date of a "great planetary alignment," though all five of them (plus the Moon) will be clustered within 33 degrees of sky on the evening of May 14th. Such gatherings of the naked-eye planets are relatively rare, occurring roughly every 20 years when slow-moving Jupiter and Saturn appear close together from Earth's perspective. A similar grouping occurred in May 2000, though it was hidden in the Sun's glare. The last compact and widely visible five-planet array was in February 1940, and astronomers calculate that another good one won't take place until September 8, 2040.... > skyandtelescope.com