https://briankoberlein.com/2016/01/21/five-little-planets-row/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 https://briankoberlein.com/2016/01/21/five-little-planets-row/#comment-3536 Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:43:20 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5673#comment-3536 Already did the math… It would take 1.15 cuatrillon years (one billon = 10^12 in my country), 8.4.10^13 times the actual age of the Universe… so the answer is: no way!!!

]]> https://briankoberlein.com/2016/01/21/five-little-planets-row/#comment-3535 Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:36:04 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5673#comment-3535 Brian, is there any chance that all the eight planets get aligned in a plane perpendicular to the ecliptic? I’m thinking about multiplying each orbital period to guess how many years have to pass to look for such aligment…

]]> https://briankoberlein.com/2016/01/21/five-little-planets-row/#comment-3534 Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:24:16 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5673#comment-3534 Yep. Been watching this develop every morning when I walk the dog. He sniffs the ground and I look at the sky. Saturn was right on top of Venus a few weeks back. I can’t see Mercury because it’s obscured by Philadelphia.

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