Eight planets and moon will line up `like pearls' by Associated Press
MIAMI - Amateur stargazers can enjoy a rare display this week as eight
planets line up in an array that won't be visible again from Earth for 100
years.
"There are five bright planets and two visible with binoculars all lined up
like pearls on a string," plus the eighth visible by telescope, Jack
Horkheimer, host of the public television program "Star Hustler," said
yesterday.
"It's quite beautiful, an exquisite grouping of the moon and planets," said
Horkheimer, who also is executive director of the Miami Space Transit
Planetarium.
The planets will be similarly aligned in May 2000, but they will be so close
to the Sun that they won't be visible from Earth, he said.
In the array, appearing after dusk through Dec. 8, the planets will be lined
up from west to east, beginning with Pluto and followed by Mercury, Mars,
Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Saturn, with a crescent moon alongside.
Pluto, appearing north of Mercury, will only be visible by telescope,
Horkheimer said, and a good pair of binoculars will be needed to see Uranus
and Neptune, to the southwest below Jupiter.
The five brightest planets, he said, should be visible on clear nights even
from urban areas.
It has happened before, it will happen again. And the gravitational effects
will be less than that of a bus driving past your house.... Remembered that
gravity follows an inverse square law too....
Regards TheHermit on DALnet
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> Of Dan Plante
> Sent: Saturday, May 30, 1998 4:13 AM
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: Re: virus: May 5, 2000
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> At 11:05 PM 5/28/98 +0100, red_mist wrote:
> >
> >I have actually done some research into this. In may 5th 2000 all the
> >planets in the solor system will be in a line. The gravitational pull
> >of all the planets could be big enough to make the earth tip on it's
> >side causing the poles to move to the equator.
>
> Please tell me you're kidding.
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> >This would cause massive
> >earthquakes, volcano erruptions and floods due to the melting of the
> >polor ice.
> >
> >I belive it is scoentificly possible that this could happen and there is
> >evidence to suggest it has happened before. I didn't get this from some
> >book or religious theory, this is actual scientific theory
>
> I don't suppose you could quote me a source, could you?
>
> >Only the weak are blind when the mist descends
> >red_mist
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