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Old December 8th 18, 08:08 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Paul Schlyter[_3_]
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Default Mars 2.2 mins apart from Neptune

On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 03:49:47 -0800 (PST), StarDust
wrote:
On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 11:09:45 PM UTC-8, palsing wrote:
On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 10:15:14 PM UTC-8, StarDust

wrote:
On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 9:15:49 PM UTC-8, RichA wrote:
Not visible from N. America but maybe someone can get a shot

elsewhere?

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/12/mars-tonight

What's not visible from N. America?
Mars?
I see it every day from N. 38 parallel!


But not at the closest approach to Neptune for the next 200

years, no... that has already passed...

They just line up that way!
You're suggesting the end of world coming?


No, he didn't suggest that at all. Close planetary conjunctions are
interesting to watch, and you can point them out without being an
apocalypse-ist.