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Venus and Jupiter Conjunction: Planets to almost touch in night sky
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| 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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posted on
04/30/2022 12:02:34 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv
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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.))
To: BenLurkin
Fake news, they are hundreds of millions of miles apart! “Appear to touch” would be accurate :)
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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)
To: BenLurkin
Venus and Jupiter. Too much ego. I give them two weeks max.
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posted on
04/30/2022 12:14:30 PM PDT
by
ComputerGuy
(Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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. ;)
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posted on
04/30/2022 12:25:13 PM PDT
by
adorno
To: BenLurkin
Someone wrote that all the planets can fit between the moon and Earth.
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posted on
04/30/2022 12:25:24 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
To: SkyDancer; BenLurkin
That would be one heck of a high tide.
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posted on
04/30/2022 12:29:19 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: SkyDancer
Oh, and they had to demote Pluto to make that happen! :-)
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posted on
04/30/2022 12:31:48 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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.
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posted on
04/30/2022 12:44:11 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BenLurkin
I predict war, disease and threats to our food supply! Wait... never mind.
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posted on
04/30/2022 12:50:13 PM PDT
by
ArcadeQuarters
(Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
To: BenLurkin
Saw that this morning. Had been seeing the two get closer and closer all week.
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posted on
04/30/2022 12:51:34 PM PDT
by
abb
To: SkyDancer
All the galaxies in the universe fit between France and England - the long way.
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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. )
To: coloradan
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posted on
04/30/2022 1:18:44 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
04/30/2022 1:19:03 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
04/30/2022 1:19:21 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
To: Larry Lucido
One UGE pyramid of water pointing upwards.
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posted on
04/30/2022 1:20:00 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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.
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posted on
04/30/2022 1:41:52 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: adorno
Jupiter is a very big planet, Venus is a small planet. Jupiter is attacking Venus, and that’s wrong.
To: citizen
Figured they were going to bounce off each other. Thanks for clarifying.
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posted on
04/30/2022 2:03:01 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: SkyDancer
Good riddance of that silent H
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posted on
04/30/2022 2:04:07 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
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