• Question: Is it possible for all the 8 plantets to become alighned, and if they can, when was the last time they did?

    Asked by kirstyi to Sam, Kate on 17 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Sam Geen

      Sam Geen answered on 17 Jun 2013:

      So in fact this May, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter did align in the sky. But it’s pretty difficult to get all of the planets to align. The internet claims it nearly happened in 500BC and possibly again in a few centuries. But it wouldn’t really do anything – the gravity from the planets is too weak to have an effect, other than to get people to go and look at the sky.

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