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05/27/2007 08:23:53 PM · #51 |
Understood, this conjunction may take place every 5000 years ? It makes sense, the time line is not linear, it is circular. How else could the Mayans predict this event.
I'm just waiting for a Stargate to open, and going out and renting a 1600mm.
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05/27/2007 08:39:43 PM · #52 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
But the distance between the planets at the point of conjunction varies with which art of the orbit it occurs in.
I'm not sure how fast the point of Earth-Venus conjunction precesses around their orbits, or at what point it's at now. |
Very true, but both Venus' and Earth's orbits are very close to circular and thus the variation in close-approach distance at conjunction is very minimal, and was certainly far beyond the Mayan's abilities to measure.
Originally posted by RulerZigzag:
Understood, this conjunction may take place every 5000 years ? It makes sense, the time line is not linear, it is circular. How else could the Mayans predict this event.
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Very nearly incomprehensible?! The conjunctions between Venus and Earth take place every 584 days (a fact that was calculated and well-known to the Mayans).
Originally posted by RulerZigzag:
I'm just waiting for a Stargate to open, and going out and renting a 1600mm.
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Ah, now perfectly clear! |
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05/28/2007 12:45:45 AM · #53 |
It's Mars that is closer to us than ever before. That is what I read and mixed the two planets up. I just never recalled seeing Venus so bright in the southwest sky.
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