First, nothing would happen if all the planets were to line up. Each planet is so far from the others that the gravity from one planet is negligible on another.
Second, it is impossible for all the planets to line up. They all orbit in slightly different planes, and they will NEVER all line up. And never have.
Every 25thousand years.. the next time will be in 2012
The planets did not align per say; however they did come into a state of Syzygy ( look on wikipedia; and commit to memory, because its great for Scrabble). On that date (3/10/1982), all 9 planets came with in 91 degrees (this is debated, I've heard as much as 95 degrees) of alignment, on the same side of the sun. This is a very rare event, and will only happen once in the length of human kind. We would have to be pretty lucky to last another million or so years. Looking at it from a purely statistical standpoint, all 9 planets will never perfectly align in the same plane. March 10th 1982 is the closest we will ever get.
VGA Planets happened in 1992.
The planets do not align frequently. A perfect alignment of all planets in our solar system is very rare due to their different orbits and speeds of rotation. The last time all the planets aligned in a straight line was in 561 BC, and such a perfect alignment won't happen again for millions of years.
No, the planets did not align on Wednesday, March 10th. Planetary alignments occur when the planets in our solar system appear in the same part of the sky from our perspective on Earth, but true alignments are quite rare.
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the planets align every millenia
Align the Planets was created on -20-05-04.
They say that on that day all the planets will align with the sun and a meteor will go through all the planets including the sun
Every 25thousand years.. the next time will be in 2012
A syzygy
This event is known as a Great Conjunction, where the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn align roughly every 20 years. However, a planetary alignment involving all the planets is a rare occurrence and may not happen exactly every 100 years.
Some theories state that weather could change and others say that it could be the end of the world. No one is sure about this.
It is extremely rare for all of the planets in our solar system to align perfectly in a straight line due to their individual orbits and distances from the sun. The last time a near-perfect alignment of the planets occurred was in 561 BC, and there is no scientific evidence to suggest that such an event will happen again in the foreseeable future.
The planets did not align per say; however they did come into a state of Syzygy ( look on wikipedia; and commit to memory, because its great for Scrabble). On that date (3/10/1982), all 9 planets came with in 91 degrees (this is debated, I've heard as much as 95 degrees) of alignment, on the same side of the sun. This is a very rare event, and will only happen once in the length of human kind. We would have to be pretty lucky to last another million or so years. Looking at it from a purely statistical standpoint, all 9 planets will never perfectly align in the same plane. March 10th 1982 is the closest we will ever get.
The moon has to align with the sun and the earth for an eclipse to happen.
Two or three planets align from time to time, but an alignment of all the planets would never happen. The chances of the planets ever lining up in our lifetime is zero. The chances of the planets ever lining up has been calculated to be about once every 8.6 x 1046 years. That's 86 billion, trillion, trillion, trillion years. The age of the Solar System is only about 4.6 x 109 years or 4.6 billion years and the Universe is only about 13.75 billion years old.