Monday, February 1, 2016

Ready for the parade of planets – BBC

In the movie “A Knight in Camelot,” loosely based on the novel by Mark Twain “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”, thanks to the parade of planets the main character is transferred to the Middle Ages. But the plot of an episode of “The X-Files” two women possess psychic powers because of the fact that on the day of their birth Uranus, Mercury and Mars are located on one line.

Surprisingly, the mystical properties of the parade of planets – is not only an idea for a film and art books. The astronomical phenomenon in which a certain number of planets is on one side of the sun in a small sector has become a favorite topic of astrologers and representatives of the tabloid press.

pseudo-state that in 1982 ” hits “provoked the death of General Secretary of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev, and the Cuban missile crisis could have been avoided if Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus are not” lined up “back in 1962.

The news of astronomers that from January 31 to February 7, 2016 before dawn earthlings will be able to see the five planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus, Mercury), and the moon, caused a new surge predictions . Astrologers announced that at the beginning of the third month of winter earthlings will open the “third eye” and deteriorating health. Separate pseudoscientists noted that our planet will begin natural disasters. However, this idea is not new – in different years speculated about the terrible disaster that tolerate the Earth due to the “astronomical parade».

«Perhaps some readers will remember the universal voltage, which caused in March 1982 the so-called hits Planets – it says in the brochure “fifth force” a senior researcher at the State Astronomical Institute. PC. Sternberg State University Vladimir Surdin. – Indeed, if there was a fairly rare phenomenon: all the planets gathered on one side of the sun.

This would lead to a summation on the solar surface tidal humps from the effects of different planets.

For some fans abroad sensations (mostly journalists, but among them were scientists) even predicted the catastrophic events in the world, which supposedly will be caused by this parade of planets. In reality, nothing much happened. Communication between the position of the planets and terrestrial events, the authors suggest sensational “theories”, it looks quite logical:

planet’s tides → → → Earth solar activity.

But none of the links of such a relationship can not yet be considered obvious, and illustrate this just is unjustified prediction.

The impact of solar activity on the evolution of the earth’s biosphere, at -vidimomu exists, but it is not so clear. There is no doubt that the planets cause tides on the sun, but it is unclear how complex oscillatory system responds “The Sun” in the tidal effect of the planets (solar seismology still in its infancy). Finally, the very very obvious what impact may have the tides to solar activity. On the one hand, they lead to the release of additional energy in the convective envelope of the sun, on the other – destroying its structure and with it the magnetic field structure, which is known to play an important role in energy processes on the solar surface ».

It is interesting that the term “parade of planets” appeared thanks to the American astrophysicists Pleydzhmenu and Gribbin, who just claimed that in 1982 all the planets, like soldiers on parade, built in single file than to cause terrible disaster on earth.

Scientists have set out their vision in the book “The Jupiter Effect” in 1974. On the cover of the world were represented, menacingly arrayed in a straight line.

By the way, scientists warn that during the “parade” heavenly bodies never arranged along a straight line. In addition, most astrophysicists do not consider the term “parade of planets” research.

Both in Russia and abroad of the scientists are in favor of calling a surprising astronomical event not parade and the convergence of the planets.

Parade of planets – the most opportune time to launch spacecraft. In 1977, during one of rapprochement, the Americans sent into space “Voyager” – the two spacecraft. It was originally planned that with “Voyager” will be investigated only Saturn and Jupiter. However, came the “hits” allowed the spacecraft to fly around all the outer planets.

It was to board the “Voyager” were attached aluminum box with gold videodisc-messages to extraterrestrial civilizations.

commission dealing with the preparation of DVDs, headed by eminent astrophysicist and science popularizer Carl Sagan.

The Commission has included in the message map of pulsars, which marked the location of the solar system, the slides with key scientific data, information about human DNA. The disc is written appeal of the 39th US President Jimmy Carter. “This unit was created in the United States, a country with a population of 240 million people chetyrehmilliardnogo among the world’s population – turned to extraterrestrial civilizations Carter. – Mankind is still divided into separate nation and the state, but the country’s quickly go to a single terrestrial civilization. <...> It’s a small gift from a distant world: our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and feelings. We are trying to survive in our time to live in yours. We hope the day will come when there will be solved the problems we face today, and we will join the galactic civilization. These records are our hopes, our determination and our goodwill in this universe, a vast and awe inspiring ».

As for this phenomenon, it is that Mercury, Saturn, Venus, Mars and Jupiter in the sequence next to the Moon (which now looks like a sickle) are clearly visible in the morning under a clear sky. To do this, we must look to the south and southeast. In the sky of the planet will take a sector, which can limit the imaginary lines passing through the zenith (the point that is directly overhead the observer), and which at the same time will be perpendicular to the horizon. The angle of this sector amount to about a third of a full circle, ie 120 °.

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