thats ausome dude keep up the excellent posts

Very cool! S&F.

Yes, Spaceweather has become a Fav. of mine in the last year or so too.

Most people are completely unaware of the Fact the Sun does anything else, but heat/light our planet!

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Let's Stay on Topic , Please.

Might be a good time to observe Mercury using Jupiter as a marker. Mercury is so bloody hard to see. I've only observed it once when I was up a mountain in the country. Damn those city lights.

Good find!I first I thought some crazy was trying to say mercury was colliding with Jupiter, wouldn't be shocked. Keep up the good work.

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Very nice S&F.

Though one question, how often does this actually happen?

I disagree....


Is it sayin they are converging together to make an impact? Considering that spaces dimensions are different than that 2d image I just say that there orbits are crossing from the angle of that "Observatory...station... thing".

Would you agree or diagree?

Somethings not right here... Jupiter is like 2 billion km away from mercury, so im confused as to what would bring them closer?

Yeah hopefully everyone realizes that their orbits simply are coming in line from the perspective of the satellite. There is no way Jupiter and Mercury could ever get close to one another. Unless a bigass asteroid hit Mercury and sent it flying off towards the outer planets. Besides, a Jupiter-Mercury impact would be more like Jupiter having nice planet meal, and Mercury would be the main course.

Edited to clarify perspective of satellite.

[edit on 7-3-2010 by OrphenFire]

Yeah hopefully everyone realizes that their orbits simply are coming in line from our perspective here on Earth.

Well, from the perspective of the satelite taking the images, not Earth, The Satelite is between the orbit of Earth and Venus possibly not in line with the Earth and the Sun.

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I first wanted to say thank you, I enjoy these threads.

Questions. Do all our planets revolve around the sun in the same direction? Do the moons revolve around there planets in the same direction? Or better yet! Where is a good source to find out? I have tried to you tube, not to sure about some of those models out there. ty