Is there a possibility that the planets in our solar system might get aligned?

Question

If there is what year it'll be, and will there be something weird gonna happen?

Answer 1

5 planets did in the early 80's, it was an awsome sight.

Answer 2

No. But it is not really clear what "the planets in our solar system might get aligned" really means. Does it mean Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all lined up in a straight line form the Sun? No, that never happens. Or it never has and will not for millions of years. But there are conjunctions and oppositions and eclipses and occultations and quadratures and applauses and all kinds of things that non-astronomers might call an "alignment" that happen all the time. Like a few days ago when the Moon and Venus were close together in the morning sky. Many of them are significant to astrologers, but not to astronomers. An astrologer might say they "portend disaster" but an astronomer would just laugh at such nonsense.

Answer 3

No. we've standard this for an prolonged time. it particularly is common to learn and it particularly is common to calculate (in case you have the counsel available). it particularly is not a secret. the vast 2012 Hoax copied the "alignment predictions" from a hoax revealed in 1974 (The Jupiter consequence) for the actual -- yet loose -- alignment of March 1982, which even secure Pluto -- nonetheless a planet back then. Earthquakes, killer tides (which grew to alter into the international tsunamis interior the Planet-X hoax of 2003), violent volcanic eruptions and, to good all of it, California slipping into the sea on March 10, 1982. final time I checked, California grew to become into nonetheless... err... on land.

Answer 4

Many years ago, with a friend, we coded all of the planets' orbital periods and heliocentric longitudes in a program. We then allowed the program to perform a very simple calculation:

Move each planet the appropriate number of degrees for a given time period. We started with a month at a time. At each iteration (one month at a time), it showed how many planets were within 5 degrees of the line Sun-Earth.
We let that run for 5 days (nothing else running on that computer) and the most we got was 4 in line (Venus Earth Mars Saturn) after some tens of thousands of years.

Then we move up to time intervals of 584 days. In other words, we checked the relative position of the other planets whenever Earth and Venus were in line (with Venus in inferior conjunction). We would adjust the interval at every inferior conjunction because 584 is an approximate value, the interval varies between each conjuction (elliptical orbits) and it varies with long term changes in orbital distances.

We did the same for Mars's opposition dates (every 780 days or so), and for the combination of both (every 312 years or so -- we did use more precise numbers). We let that last one run for one week (a little less than 7 days) and we never got 7 planets to align within 5 degrees, on the same side of the Sun (although we did get 6 on a few occasions over a few billion years).

Of course, the number of alignments you get depend on how precise you set the alignement.

For the Great Planet Alignment of 2002, there were four planets involved (Mercury, Venus. Mars and Saturn) in line 'as seen from Earth' (not in line with the Sun), within 15 degrees of each other. Jupiter was 45 degrees away from Mercury (and 30 from Saturn), and was considered by Spacewatch to be part of the group (but not part of the alignment).

There are more alignments if you count any line as seen from Earth (as opposed to the Sun) and widen your 'expectations' -- i.e., if you accept 45 degrees off as being in line.

Having said all of that, I found an interesting 'alignment' at New Moon in early May1882, on Starry Night (a planetarium software):


From West to East in heliographic longitude:
-9.5 Neptune
-8.7 Saturn
0 Sun
0 Moon (may have been a partial eclipse somewhere)
+10 Jupiter
+17 Mercury
+25 Venus
+75 Mars

The numbers indicate the offset in degrees, with the Sun (and the New Moon) taken as 0.


The total width is less than 90 degrees, which is considered an 'alignment' in astronautics (it was one such alignment that was used for NASA's 'Planetary Grand Tour' by Voyager I and Voyager II : Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune within a 90 degree sector, and in that order).

If you take the Sun and the Moon to be 'planets' (as the Greek did, way back when), then May 1882 saw five of them at +/- 10 degrees (from Neptune to Jupiter). Of course, the giant planets are on the other side of the Sun, as seen from Earth (this would not have counted as an alignment in my earlier computer search).

Answer 5

yeah, once every few trillion years, they'll line up, at least as close to a line as they can ever get.

Other than that, every couple of centuries, the eight planets and Pluto all sort of congregate on the same side of the sun and even in the same quadrant of their orbits. But as far as a straight line alignment signaling the end of the world, the return of the King, doom for all mortals, plagues of locusts, and bedtime, IT'LL NEVER HAPPEN.

Answer 6

Planets are getting aligned in various ways all the time. It has absolutely no effect, because the planets are too small and far apart to have much effect on one another.

Answer 7

Alignment wouldn't cause anything weird to happen. Weird things happen all the time anyway. --Nothing astonomic is required.

Answer 8

yes,but dont expect it any time in the near future wait a few thousand yeers

Answer 9

Yes they do . I don't member when sorry.