What happens when all the planets in our system are in(one) line with our sun???

Question

.... what is this celestial event ? ..and when is it supposed to happen ???

what sort of fields , fluctuation, (.............) can something like that produce????

Answer 1

The phenomenon you are referring to is called, and a nearly impossibe Scrabble word, is called "syzygy." That's what happens when the planets are most aligned with one another. As to when it will happen again, I do not know. But such an event is said to add stress to our tectonic plates and increase earthquakes and high tides. One interesting piece of trivia is that syzygy was responsible for Voyager leaving the solar system through a pattern of flight from one planet to another which was only made possible through that phenomenon. I hope that this helps answer your question.

Answer 2

If the planets did line up like that, nothing special would happen. Anyway, it has not ever happened that we know of and will not happen in the future; at least not within the time as far out as we can predict. I am talking here about all 8 (or 9) planets sitting on the same straight line extending out from the Sun, or approximately so.

Answer 3

The other answerers are mostly correct....little or no affect on the earth. One possible extraterrestrial effect is a minor change in the configuration of the heliopause - the outer envelope of the sun's radiation surrounding the solar system. This 'egg'-shaped shell 'flies' through the particle soup of the the Milky Way, cosmic radiation and may even bump into the heliopause of the Centauri starsystem next door. The results of any effect a planetary alignment might have on this shell is completely unknown.

Answer 4

The only thing that you and I will personally experience from this alignment is being able to see most all the planets except Mercury and Venus direct;y overhead at midnight. The gravity from these planets has never affected our tides and never will. They are just too far away. You would be more affected by the gravity of someone standing 100 feet away from you than you would by the gravity of our closest neighbor, Mars. In short, nothing will happen. Astrologists may disagree, but they are just superstitious morons, in my opinion.

Answer 5

Absolutely nothing, it has happened countless times in the past few billion years. The total Mass of all the planets is far less than 1% of the Mass of the sun so the garvitational pull has essentially no meansurable effect.

Answer 6

It happened back in the 80's or 90's when a bunch lined up. Nothing happens. It'll probably happen again in a few thousand years. Get ahold of a copy of a book "The Jupiter Effect". It predicted all kinds of earthquakes etc and people bought into it. The author made a fortune. Of course, sales went way down when nothing happened

Answer 7

Since the planets are on different orbits, it will never happen that they are exactly in line. What would be the result if they did? Well, the planets would all be in a line, that's it. Something to look at.

Answer 8

It is called the Grand Conjunction, it happened last in 2001, about the largest effect it had on our planet was changes in the tides, there were record high and low tides, that was about it. It occurs with comparative regularity and is next due in 2022.

Answer 9

It did not happen, cambelp2002 is correct, they simply were in the same quandrant. As far as we know they have never lined up perfectly and if they did, it would be no big deal.

Answer 10

It's also called a syzygy. Cool name, huh?

The other posters are right. It just happened, and nothing happens aside from the AWESOME telescope viewing opportunity!! :)

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