Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!sri-unix!Lynn.es@XEROX.ARPA From: Lynn.es@XEROX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Conjunction question Message-ID: <12437@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 14:30:22 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12437 Posted: Thu Sep 27 14:30:22 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 04:44:13 EDT Lines: 11 Saturn and Jupiter conjunct (is that the right verb?) every twenty years, usually once, but occasionally a triple in quick succession (few months apart). Such conjunctions are almost always visible in both north/south entire hemispheres, at least within a day of conjunction, with the exception of some of the polar regions. I say almost because maybe 10% of the time the conjunction occurs when they are essentially behind the sun as seen from the earth. I remember observing a Saturn-Jupiter conjuction a few years ago (3 maybe?), so it is a long wait for the next one. I can look up the date tomorrow if "about 17 years" isn't close enough. /Don Lynn