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To: Randy Larsen

No but there are two planets that are remarkably ‘close together’.. Jupiter and Venus?


9 posted on 03/10/2012 7:14:32 PM PST by FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs
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To: FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs

Correct.


11 posted on 03/10/2012 7:15:53 PM PST by jra
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To: FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs

I can see them towards the west, high in the sky!

This was at a deep 60+ degree angle in the southern sky.


16 posted on 03/10/2012 7:19:43 PM PST by Randy Larsen (No Romney vote from my family!)
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To: FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs
No but there are two planets that are remarkably ‘close together’.. Jupiter and Venus?

They were doing some absolutely stunning early evening conjunctions with the crescent moon a week or so ago. Beautiful!

22 posted on 03/10/2012 7:26:15 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs; jra; Bernard Marx

I’m glad this came up, thanks to all for the planets subthread. I’d seen the Jupiter (which is unmistakeable) and Venus which I’d taken for Mars, because it looks fairly dull by comparison with Jove, and seemed too high in the sky to be Venus; this is the year of the second of two transits across the Sun, next time will be 150+ years from now).

March 2012 guide to the five visible planets
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury


70 posted on 03/10/2012 9:35:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
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