Re: [*FSFFU*] Star Watching (off-topic, but cool)

From: Vonda N. McIntyre (vonda@OZ.NET)
Date: Wed Dec 03 1997 - 02:05:45 PST


Here is the information.

http://www.starhustler.com/scriptsg002.html

The planets aren't "lined up" in the woo-woo
apocalyptic world-is-coming-to-an-end sense.
They're simply all in the sky at the same time.
(You still can't see Neptune or Pluto with the
naked eye, and can see Uranus only under
extraordinary conditions without help.)

Jupiter was next to the crescent moon this evening
and was extraordinarily beautiful.

Vonda

On Wed, 3 Dec 1997 02:50:55 -0500, Barbara Benesch
<BJBenesch@AOL.COM> wrote:

>
>astronomer-guy I heard talking about it said that it "didn't require any
>special equipment" which I translated as "with the naked eye" without first
>thinking it through. Also, this is only going to happen again in about a
>century....

http://www.sff.net/people/Vonda
The Moon and the Sun -- One of Publishers Weekly's
"Best Books of 1997"
http://www.bookwire.com/pw/bestbooks97.article$3946



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