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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 06:45 AM Original message |
About that Jupiter - Venus thing -- it's hard to picture the geometry |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 06:54 AM Response to Original message |
1. Think of a Smiley Face, |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 06:58 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I can picture it in the sky -- I mean the solar system perspective |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 07:03 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I was LOUSY |
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qazplm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 07:04 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. use a clock |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 07:07 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. That's kinda what I figgered, but it would be nice to see a diagram ... |
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qazplm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 07:14 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. well draw a picture |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 07:15 AM Response to Original message |
7. I think your description sounds about right |
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jimshoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 07:34 AM Response to Original message |
8. here's the diagram |
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daninthemoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 07:39 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. very nice |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 07:42 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. OK, here's the part that messes with my brain, even with the diagram |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 08:05 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. They're not that far off scale for Venus and Mercury |
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caraher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 03:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Well, it's not really about scale, though the drawing definitely is not to scale |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 09:35 AM Response to Reply #13 |
21. And the Moon in its orbit is currently off to the left of the Venus-Jupiter line. |
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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 10:38 AM Response to Reply #8 |
18. This also indicates |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 07:41 AM Response to Original message |
10. The Jupiter-Venus conjunction(?) was spectacular during our 200 mile drive west in the early evening |
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Ediacara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
14. I made this image with a program called Celestia |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 10:00 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. A mess of awesomeness. |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 07:05 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Pretty amazing! |
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Ediacara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 11:30 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. I think most of those far off orbits are some of the micromoons |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
16. Think of a line - Moon- Venus-Sun-Jupiter |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 06:42 PM Response to Original message |
20. Here's a photo of them above Hong Kong. |
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