One time I watch a movie which is "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" (starring Angelina Jolie) and it shows that the 9 planets in our solar system forming a straight line behind the sun from mercury to pluto, and they called "Illuminati".. and they say that it will happen again on next 5,000 years. Is it possible? How can you explain it to me?.. Show your best reason and your own principle.
2007-03-06 19:55:21 · 6 answers · asked by Ice 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
...ahem, ahem. It's eight planets. (Pluto isn't a "planet")
The planets aren't in a perfect plane (otherwise the two outer planets would collide when they cross each others' axis's), so technically they can't line up in a straight line.
2007-03-06 20:00:09 · answer #1 · answered by Esse Est Percipi 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all, it is impossible for all the planets to form a straight line out from the Sun (or viewed superimposed on each other in the sky) because each planetary orbit is tilted slightly (and sometimes not slight at all in the case of Pluto) with respect to the Earth's orbit (whose plane we trace out on the night sky as a line completely around the sky and is called the ecliptic). These zealots confuse the term planetary alignment with the more accurate words that should be used, planetary configuration or a loose grouping of the planets in the sky. Actually the event that occurred in 1983 was that the planets (all eight of them -- we are on the ninth, Earth) would be within 96° of each other in the sky -- not in a straight line as most people would misinterpret with the term alignment. To have all of the planets on the same side of the Sun and virtually all within the same quadrant (i.e., 90°) happens approximately once every 200 years -- rare as far as humans are concerned, but not rare as far as the solar system is concerned.
Second, in Lara Croft, they had the alignment start with two planets, the another, then another over the space of a few days.
Well, by the time the last one aligned, the first would moved on.
2007-03-06 22:40:07 · answer #2 · answered by Walking Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Virtually Impossible
2007-03-07 00:06:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, that makes various experience. meaning I cant say the names of many animals, any of the days of the week, or truly some the months. Wow, am I allowed to assert something? apparently no longer.
2016-12-05 08:50:39 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes but not like in tomb raider, and no magic
2007-03-10 01:14:16 · answer #5 · answered by DRAGON 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeh only 8 planets now maybe it wud happen with the 8 i dunno im no smarty pants
2007-03-06 20:05:39 · answer #6 · answered by Perth-beachbabe15 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋