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Venus and Jupiter Conjunction: Planets to almost touch in night sky
bbc ^ | 04/30/2022 | Georgina Rannard

Posted on 04/30/2022 12:02:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Look up in the sky at the right moment this weekend and you could see two of the solar system's brightest planets almost touching.

Venus and Jupiter will be millions of miles apart, but from Earth they will appear close to colliding.

This planetary conjunction happens annually but this year they will appear much closer than usual.

The same spectacle won't occur again like this until 2039.

Just the naked eye or binoculars should be enough to see it in a clear sky.

After Saturday, the two planets will go their separate ways as they drift apart in the coming days.

Social media user @DebraJ54 took this photo in Humboldt, Tennessee, on Saturday morning

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: conjunction; jupiter; venus
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1 posted on 04/30/2022 12:02:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv

ping


2 posted on 04/30/2022 12:04:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: BenLurkin

Fake news, they are hundreds of millions of miles apart! “Appear to touch” would be accurate :)


3 posted on 04/30/2022 12:10:28 PM PDT by citizen (Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public prop. in riches and luxury)
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To: BenLurkin

Venus and Jupiter. Too much ego. I give them two weeks max.


4 posted on 04/30/2022 12:14:30 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: citizen
Fake news, they are hundreds of millions of miles apart! “Appear to touch” would be accurate :)

The article does say exactly what you say, but, if they do touch, it's Russian disinformation, or the Chinese blew a N-bomb close to Venus to send it into Jupiter. It's happened before. ;)
5 posted on 04/30/2022 12:25:13 PM PDT by adorno
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To: BenLurkin

Someone wrote that all the planets can fit between the moon and Earth.


6 posted on 04/30/2022 12:25:24 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: SkyDancer; BenLurkin

That would be one heck of a high tide.


7 posted on 04/30/2022 12:29:19 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: SkyDancer

Oh, and they had to demote Pluto to make that happen! :-)


8 posted on 04/30/2022 12:31:48 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido

Poor Pluto. Disqualified as a planet before it could complete a post-discovery orbit around the sun. Even having its own moon couldn’t stop the haters.


9 posted on 04/30/2022 12:44:11 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BenLurkin

I predict war, disease and threats to our food supply! Wait... never mind.


10 posted on 04/30/2022 12:50:13 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: BenLurkin

Saw that this morning. Had been seeing the two get closer and closer all week.


11 posted on 04/30/2022 12:51:34 PM PDT by abb
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To: SkyDancer

All the galaxies in the universe fit between France and England - the long way.


12 posted on 04/30/2022 12:58:41 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: coloradan

https://www.universetoday.com/115672/you-could-fit-all-the-planets-between-the-earth-and-the-moon/


13 posted on 04/30/2022 1:18:44 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Larry Lucido

https://www.universetoday.com/115672/you-could-fit-all-the-planets-between-the-earth-and-the-moon/


14 posted on 04/30/2022 1:19:03 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Larry Lucido

https://www.universetoday.com/115672/you-could-fit-all-the-planets-between-the-earth-and-the-moon/


15 posted on 04/30/2022 1:19:21 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Larry Lucido

One UGE pyramid of water pointing upwards.


16 posted on 04/30/2022 1:20:00 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: SkyDancer

I might think all the respective planets would all up in each others’ Roche limits. Could end up with one big planet or asteroid disk.


17 posted on 04/30/2022 1:41:52 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: adorno

Jupiter is a very big planet, Venus is a small planet. Jupiter is attacking Venus, and that’s wrong.


18 posted on 04/30/2022 1:46:00 PM PDT by scottinoc
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To: citizen

Figured they were going to bounce off each other. Thanks for clarifying.


19 posted on 04/30/2022 2:03:01 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SkyDancer

Good riddance of that silent H


20 posted on 04/30/2022 2:04:07 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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