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.
All planets in our solar system will never align perfectly in a straight line due to their different orbital paths and speeds. The closest alignment that occurs is called planetary alignment, and it happens roughly every 500 years.
About every 27 months. There was one alignment in July, 2002, so just repeatedly add 27 months to find when others will occur. My source is an astrology source, not an astronomy source, but astrologers really do know how to predict the positions of the planets. It is just the meaning of those positi...
No, usually the planets are in different directions. Every few years two or three of them line up.
No, Jupiter does not change its place relative to the Sun every 248 years compared to other planets. Jupiter orbits the Sun in about 11.9 years, along with the other planets in our solar system. The concept of a 248-year cycle likely refers to the time it takes for Jupiter to return to the same position in the sky as seen from Earth, known as a Jupiter "return" or "synodic period".
You can't demonstrate something that doesn't happen.
the planets align every millenia
Every 25thousand years.. the next time will be in 2012
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.
All planets in our solar system will never align perfectly in a straight line due to their different orbital paths and speeds. The closest alignment that occurs is called planetary alignment, and it happens roughly every 500 years.
The time it takes to get from one planet to another depends on the departure and arrival planets. It can take about two years to get from Earth to Mars where it will take about six years to get from Earth to Jupiter.
All of the planets in our solar system rarely align perfectly due to their different orbital paths and speeds. When a multi-planet alignment does occur, it is not generally a true line-up in space but rather an alignment as seen from Earth. Such alignments can happen every few decades, but a perfect alignment where all planets are in a straight line is extremely rare and has not occurred for hundreds of years.
Neptune orbits the sun roughly every 165 years.
To start, hopefully my solar system is the same as yours. There is no definite answer depending on how perfectly aligned you are asking. There was an alignment of sorts with 5 planets and the moon May 5th, 2000. The next one of those will happen in 2040. Including all the planets and a near perfect to perfect alignment, it's in the millions of years to trillions of years. For better information check out below:
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.
The chances of the planets ever lining up are so statistically improbable that it is safe to say it will never happen. The actual chances of the planets ever lining up has been calculated to be about once every 8.6 x 1046 years. (That's once every 86 billion, trillion, trillion, trillion years.) Since the Sun will be gone in about 10 billion years, it is impossible for this to happen.
It's probably they used to somehow study the planets. Already they supposedly "knew" that the other planets evolved around Earth, so then it would have been easier for them to know that the planets lined up every 26 000 years.
About every 27 months. There was one alignment in July, 2002, so just repeatedly add 27 months to find when others will occur. My source is an astrology source, not an astronomy source, but astrologers really do know how to predict the positions of the planets. It is just the meaning of those positi...