what happens on 28th february 1982?

Question

i heard that amergendon nearly happened on that day. some kind of star nearly clashed the earth

Answer 1

No such thing. And the so-called "alignment of planets" a few days later didn't happen either. They were spread out over an arc of about 45 degrees.

Answer 2

I've looked up events of Feb 28, 1982, and can't find anything noteworthy. Nothing astronomical.

The event others have referred to in March was dubbed "The Jupiter Effect." It was the subject of a book written in the 70's. Another example of reckless and misleading, sensationalist journalism.

The one answerer was right in mentioning that all nine planets were on one side of the sun, but that covers 180 degrees: half of the ecliptic. While this happens only rarely, it is nothing like what one would call an "alignment", although doomsayers and alarmists of the day popularized that word in association with it. As is true today with this Mayan calendar, 2012 nonsense, other people with their apocalypse predictions, piggybacked onto the Jupiter Effect theme and date. Yes, the Nostradamus crowd was there, too. And it only took them three years to come up with another set of doom predictions for the 1990's, (and a documentary narrated by Orson Welles). They're back again, hooking on to this 2012 garbage.

So, no "alignment." No encounter with a star *or* comet. No cosmic near-misses. Nothing but a lot of media hype and yet another in a long string of failed apocalyptic predictions.

Oh, here's the link for the Jupiter Effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_effect

Answer 3

absolutely impossible! If a star had nearly clashed with the planet, the closeness would have destroyed everything. A star is powerful and being close would have burned us all to death. Also...stars, even, small stars, have enormous gravity, enough to bend space! A star being close would also fry all of our electronic gadgets, possibly blown off our atmosphere, etc...a variety of things...also...the closest star is at least a few light years away... (4.27 to be exact). That means that travelling at the speed of light is 186,000 miles a second.

Answer 4

Nothing of that sort happened, however a few days later on 10th march of the same year, for the first time in many many years, all the 9 planets alligned on the same side of the sun.

Answer 5

I think that was a year when the comet called Halley, passed near earth. It is not a star but merely a comet.

You don't need a star to make Armageddon happen, you just need something half the size of moon.

Answer 6

HAPPENED

past tense