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This line, for instance: (literally, a woman with 12 stars around her head and the moon at her feet); In regards to Dec. 23rd, 07. I'm removing it, and what you guys do from there is up to you. -Motley a b c qu 00:40, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
here is the main article which explains the meaing behind this conjunction.freaky stuff
http://web.archive.org/web/20070213075620/http://www.incapabledesetaire.com/edito/secretwash.htm
The Milky Way galaxy rotates so slowly that it is not yet much used in astrology. In time that might change. The 220-million-year cycle is so slow that human beings have only started to observe it. Even so, many ancient species have been around twice already.
The one visible exterior object, the Andromeda Galaxy or just "Andromeda" for short, is a useful marker for Galactic Rotation. Andromeda is 21 degrees in galactic latitude south of the Milky Way's equator and 121.17 degrees in galactic longitude away from the Galactic Center.
Current claims that it was an asteroid that caused extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago almost seem specious compared with the substantial possibility the extinction was caused by a conjunction starting just ten million years earlier between the Andromeda Galaxy and the Galactic Center.
The rotation of 121.17 degrees since then means the conjunction itself would have begun just about 75 million years ago, only ten million years earlier. It would have signaled the swan song for the brutes.
A galactic conjunction, majestic and slow, would be capable of wearying any species to its faintest original errors no matter how anciently they were buried in instinct. It is the sort of thing that would cause the collapse of a species that had been coarsely conceived 300 million years earlier. Its quantum electrodynamics, anchored in the entire cosmology of the exterior galaxies, would have been inverted more than once, and at conjunction the alignment would have enforced the implications of the errors of their ways. The dinosaurs had survived one conjunction, but the second conjunction proved decisive. SyntheticET (talk) 04:54, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
No.
TowardsTheLight (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:36, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
astrology is ****. the name of the article must be changed. 88.244.2.117 (talk) 17:59, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
Occultations in which the larger body is neither the Sun nor the Moon are very rare.
Er, surely Jupiter occults its own moons all the time? — PhilHibbs | talk 16:42, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Shouldn't Pluto be removed from the table of planetary conjunctions? Matchups 20:01, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Why is this page not split? These two subjects are simply too disparate to be lumped together like this. When people look up an article about a scientific subject they should be presented a page of what is generally believed to be true, not a page half of truth, half magical effects which are not only not believed by most people but for which there isn't any actual evidence for! I'll probably be less horny during the transit of Venus (why it must be, being surrounded by dozens of you-diameters of eye-damaging bright solar disk surely should diminish any planet's magical power!) but it'd be because I'm occupied watching it, and not because the Sun's magic is outshining it. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 21:06, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
The Article doesn't endorse astrology. It's just a matter of fact that a planetary conjunction is the same thing in both Astronomy and Astrology. Regardless whether Astrology is or isn't a load of garbage as a worldview, a conjunction is a conjunction is a conjunction. Period. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.223.130.60 (talk) 02:16, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
This article should probably discuss what a conjunction is, and simply point to another article listing upcoming conjunctions. It's much too cluttered as is. 71.181.21.203 (talk) 19:05, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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Done, as there were no comments or objections. Tfr000 (talk) 14:12, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
The section "Notable Conjunctions" lists several planetary groupings when three or more planets appeared to lie fairly close in the sky. These groupings are not strictly conjunctions, but will include conjunctions at particular times. Is it right that the article confuses the two concepts? By all means include a list of notable conjunctions, but the article should not list vague planetary groupings. And including a reference to the Galactic Centre is eccentric. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.183.128.89 (talk) 14:55, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
I noticed the word "coincidence" in this article. When I searched for it, I found another one, and one use of the word "coincidentally". In my opinion, this is wrong. Coincidence makes it sound as if conjunctions are a matter of pure chance. Coincidence are simply a (mathematical) product of the orbital periods and inclinations of the various astronomical objects involved, and can be predicted pretty accurately. If you want to express that a certain event only happens once in a million years or whatever, it is better to use "uniquely" or "in a rare event" or something like that. I have editted those sections and am putting this here now as an explanations. Greetings, RagingR2 (talk) 12:47, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Isn't it possible that three planets (e. g. Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune) are in conjunction? How often does that happen? Same with four or even seven planets.--31.17.153.69 (talk) 22:33, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
No, a conjunction involves two bodies only. That comes from the definition of a conjunction - a conjunction is two bodies reaching the same right ascension (or ecliptic longitude), and that is something that happens at one specific time. For a conjunction to involve three bodies, all three would have to reach the same right ascension (or ecliptic longitude) at precisely the same instant, which will not happen in practice. TowardsTheLight (talk) 17:32, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
I have made a seperate section for quasi, because it is neither superior nor inferior, which is the section it was in. Also, Mars goes retrograde too, and when it does, Jupiter might well sneak up behind it (and get arbitrarily close, modulo orbital planes). Why did you guys say this only happens with Merc or Venus? It happens with outer planets too; it is just not as noticeable. Or am I wrong? Verdana♥Bøld 02:08, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
Does the"Superior and inferior" section concern only conjunctions involving the Sun? Whereas the definition at the article's beginning is "n two astronomical objects (...) In the case of two objects that always appear close to the ecliptic – such as two planets, or the Moon and a planet, or the Sun and a planet – ". --109.54.28.173 (talk) 18:18, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
The diagram in this section is rather badly spelt. 94.30.84.71 (talk) 17:57, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
A conjunction occurs when two astronomical objects or spacecraft
Someone added spacecraft. Do we want this article to go there? Tfr000 (talk) 20:19, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
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What are the criteria for a qualifying as a "notable conjunction"? For example, It’s A Big Year For The Solar System As Mars, Saturn, Jupiter And Venus Take Turns To Look Their Best mentions several conjunctions in 2020. Why would one be more notable than the others to be listed here? It seems that the list just accreted and most aren't really significant.
I'd vote for removing most of the ones after 2010. Alternatively, there should be entries for future conjunctions. Sesquiannual (talk) 02:05, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
The following conjunctions in the past should be considered important and therefore listed up:
Of course Venus has at conjunctions a greater brightness than any other planets, but as Venus is an interior planet, a conjunction with Venus cannot be seen during the whole night.
Sources: Download "Cartes du Ciel" ( https://www.heise.de/download/product/cartes-du-ciel-skychart-10942 ) or "High Precision Ephemeris Tool 4.20" ( http://virtualskysoft.de/software-fuer-hobbyastronomen/high-precision-ephemeris-tool ) and let the programms work for the shown dates. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:df:1f1d:f329:1544:1eda:dc36:9dfc (talk • contribs) 17:56, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
According to a spreadsheet I have made, Mercury and Venus usually cross four times in one synodic cycle of Venus, but once in a while twice or six times. Also, it seems that Mars can cross Mercury five times in about half a year. Can someone supply a source for these statements? If I can show it with an on-line program, would that be sufficient as a reference? Is there such an on-line program? Eric Kvaalen (talk) 16:40, 26 July 2023 (UTC)