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Old March 6th 18, 03:14 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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On Monday, March 5, 2018 at 8:19:07 PM UTC, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
If you can distinguish between the open-ended illusory loop of Mars from the closed actual loop of Venus you have already come to understand what Galileo and the original Sun centered astronomers did not


The maths that allowed Kepler to predict a transit of Venus predict exactly where Venus will be in relation to the fixed stars at any time, and guess what, plotting it does indeed show illusory loops.

http://www.nakedeyeplanets.com/movements.htm

You are hilariously wrong at every step of this imagined crusade.