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		During a superior conjunction, Venus is on the opposite side of the sun in relation to the earth.
		(Inferior conjunction occurs at an interval of 584 days.) But if such conjunction occurs when Venus is near its node, then it is seen from the earth as a small, dark spot moving from east to west across the sun's luminous disc along a path sensibly parallel to the ecliptic.
		When Venus is closest to the earth, at inferior conjunction, the planet is at the new phase, lying between the earth and the sun.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20040604000608000.htm&date=fl2111/&prd=fline& (2046 words)

	Conjunction (astronomy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In an inferior conjunction, the superior planet is "in opposition " to the Sun as seen from the inferior planet.
		The terms "inferior conjunction" and "superior conjunction" are used in particular for the planets Mercury and Venus, which are inferior planets as seen from the Earth.
		A planet (or asteroid or comet) is simply said to be in conjunction, when it is in conjunction with the Sun, as seen from the Earth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Astronomical_conjunction (976 words)

	CONJUNCTION - LoveToKnow Article on CONJUNCTION
		In astronomy, conjunction is the nearest apparent approach of two heavenly bodies which seem to pass each other in their coursessaid to be in longitude, right ascension, andc., when they have the same longitude, andc.
		A superior conjunction is one in which the lesser body is beyond the greater, especially when a planet is beyond the sun.
		In grammar the term conjunction is applied to one of the so-called parts of speech, viz, those words which are used to join together words, clauses or sentences.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/CONJUNCTION.htm (179 words)

	AllRefer.com - conjunction, in astronomy (Astronomy, General) - Encyclopedia
		Conjunction of the moon and the planets is often determined by reference to the sun.
		When a body is in conjunction with the sun, it rises with the sun, and thus cannot be seen; its elongation is 0°.
		When either lies directly between the earth and the sun, it is in inferior conjunction; when either lies on the far side of the sun from the earth, it is in superior conjunction.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/conjunc-ast.html (233 words)

	PLANET - LoveToKnow Article on PLANET
		At superior conjunction the illuminated hemisphere of the planet is presented to the earth so that it presents the form of a full moon.
		As it moves towards inferior conjunction, the lines from the planet to the sun and to the earth, or the angle sun-earth as seen from the planet, on which the phase depends, continually make a greater angle.
		Then, as it approaches inferior conjunction, the visible portion of the disk assumes the crescent form, and while the circle bounding the disk continually increases owing to the approach of the planet to the earth, the crescent becomes thinner and thinner until, near inferior conjunction, the planet is no longer visible.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PL/PLANET.htm (3857 words)

	conjunction, in astronomy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Conjunction of the moon and the planets is often determined by reference to the sun.
		When a body is in conjunction with the sun, it rises with the sun, and thus cannot be seen; its elongation is 0°.
		When either lies directly between the earth and the sun, it is in inferior conjunction; when either lies on the far side of the sun from the earth, it is in superior conjunction.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/conjunc-ast.html (173 words)

	EXPLANATION INNER PLANETS
		Conjunctions are termed as superior or inferior, being those more distant than the Sun, or closer than the Sun, respectively.
		At superior conjunction, such planets appear as small circular disks, whose full phase is never really seen because of the inferior planet’s proximity to the Sun.
		As the orbits of the inferior planets are not perfectly aligned to the plane of the planets, the ecliptic, it becomes rare for transits across the disk at inferior conjunction to occur.
	homepage.mac.com /andjames/PageExpInnPlan003.htm (928 words)

	Articles - Triple Conjunction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the events in which Mercury is involved, the second conjunction is invisible because of small elongation from sun; both other events are difficult to see because of the nearness to horizon and the relatively low brightness of Mars, which is there always near its greatest distance from earth, barely visible.
		Triple conjunctions between the inferior planets Mercury and Venus and the superior planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto or with stars take place when these objects are at the same time in conjunction to sun while Mercury or Venus are at inferior conjunction.
		Triple conjunctions between the bright exterior planets are very rare: the last triple conjunctions between Mars and Jupiter occurred in 1789 - '90, in 1836 - '37 and in 1979 - '80.
	www.kamero.net /articles/Triple_conjunction?mySession=22ce937caa46c38a037458fca32a0290 (831 words)

	Saturnian Cosmology - Venus and Epidemics
		Bob Fritzius has tracked the inferior conjunctions of Venus and pandemics for years, and comes to the same conclusion, and presented this evidence in a paper to the AAS in 2002.
		Because the damaging bacteria appeared in each case an some average of 30 days after a inferior conjunction of Venus, and after northerly winds (actually winds from the northwest) and rain, Barber assumed that the bacteria entered the Earth's upper atmosphere (at the aurora borealis) with the Solar Wind after it passed by Venus.
		Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasminghe in "Diseases from Space" (1979) claimed a correlation of the severety of influenza pandemics with sunspot activity, and suggested that viruses or bacterial spores could be transmitted to Earth from the tails of comets and with streams of meteors.
	saturniancosmology.org /epi.php (1251 words)

	Cardiff Astronomical Society -Planetary Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An inferior planet is said to be "in inferior conjunction" when it is directly between the Earth and the Sun.
		An inferior planet is said to be "in superior conjunction" when it is on the opposite side of the Sun from the Earth.
		There is no equlivelant of an inferior conjunction for a superior planet, as it never passes between the earth and the sun.
	www.ilddat.demon.co.uk /planet_terms.html (176 words)

	conjunction
		An inferior planet is in inferior conjunction when it is directly between Earth and the Sun.
		A superior planet is in conjunction when it is on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth.
		When Earth is at inferior conjunction with respect to a superior planet that planet is in opposition from Earth’s perspective.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/C/conjunction.html (149 words)

	Night skies in the Axarquia on the Costa del Sol, Andalucia, Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During September Mercury is at her morning brightest mid-month, Mars is conjunct on the 15th, Jupiter is conjunct on the 22nd, the autumn equinox when night and day are of approximately the same length is also on the 22nd and there is a full moon on the 28th.
		Inferior conjunction is when a planet lies between the earth and the sun and superior conjunction is when a planet lies behind the sun.
		Before and after inferior conjuction, when Venus is the closest it comes to the earth, are the times at which the planet is most brilliant and can be seen setting or rising 4 hours after or before the sun.
	www.absoluteaxarquia.com /nightskyseptember.html (3257 words)

	President Clinton: A Quetzalcoatl for Our Times
		Inferior conjunction: This is when Venus begins its period as a morning star.
		As the inferior conjunction recurs, Quetzalcoatl is sacrificed by the gods, is re-deified, then immediately descends to earth to begin the cycle again.
		But this January 16, the date of the inferior conjunction, brought an incredible story to the news, a story that seems to indicate that President Clinton is somehow playing out the Quetzalcoatl myth.
	www.onereed.com /articles/presquet.html (1161 words)

	TRANSIT OF VENUS - EnchantedLearning.com
		Conjunction is the apparent close approach of a planet to the Sun (or another planet), from the point of view of an observer on the Earth.
		Mercury and Venus have two positions of conjunction: when either planet is directly between the Earth and the Sun, it is in inferior conjunction; when either planet is on the far side of the Sun from the earth, it is in superior conjunction.
		During conjunction, a planet cannot be seen from Earth (unless it is in transit); it is either behind the Sun or is lost in the glare of the Sun.
	www.zoomschool.com /subjects/astronomy/planets/venus/transit.shtml (1075 words)

	Learning about the planets
		A superior conjunction occurs when the sun is between the earth and the sun.
		An inferior conjunction occurs when the planet is between the earth and the sun.
		A rare event occurs called a solar transit meaning that the planet is in inferior conjunction and crossing the sun's disk.
	www.galaxies.com /learn3.aspx (1176 words)

	INFERIOR - Definition
		Whether they are equal or inferior to my other poems, an author is the most improper judge.
		{ Inferior court } ( Law), a court subject to the jurisdiction of another court known as the superior, or higher, court.
		{ Inferior letter }, { Inferior figure } ( Print.), a small letter or figure standing at the bottom of the line ( opposed to { superior letter } or figure), as in A _{2}, B _{ n }, 2 and n are inferior characters.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/inferior (452 words)

	Venus: Godess of Love and a Hell of a Planet
		And an inferior conjunction is when a planet is between the earth and the sun.
		And unlike Mars, Venus cannot be seen when it is closest to the earth because it would be at inferior conjunction with the sun and lost in the sun's glare.
		During the period from superior conjunction Venus changed from a tiny full disk only 10" (seconds of arc) in diameter to a half illuminated (quarter moon) disk 24" in diameter at greatest elongation.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/bmoler/venus.htm (836 words)

	mayan12
		Since conjunctions of the planet with the sun are effectively invisible to naked-eye observation, it is highly probably that the Mayas used a series of last and first days of visibility before and after Venus's conjunction with the sun to establish a series of variable periods.
		What this may suggest, then, is that the position at inferior conjunction shows an advantage in terms of having a narrower range of variables covering a maximum of 8 days (580 to 588) but a wider possibility in terms of the number of days the planet could remain invisible at that position.
		At superior conjunction, on the other hand, the length of the individual periods varies more radically (592 to 577) but the duration of invisibility is considerably more stable at 50 to 52 days.
	mayanastro.freeservers.com /mayan12.html (1216 words)

	NASA's Solar System Exploration: Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An inferior planet (closer to the sun than Earth - Mercury and Venus) is said to be "in inferior conjunction" when it is directly between the Earth and the Sun.
		It is "in superior conjunction" when it is on the opposite side of the Sun from the Earth.
		When the Earth is at inferior conjunction with respect to an observer on a superior planet we say that planet is "in opposition" from Earth's perspective.
	www.solarsystem.nasa.gov /dictionary/index.cfm?Letter=C (721 words)

	Voyage 8
		Inferior planets go through the same phases as the Moon (Figure 8.1), but the superior planets show only two phases (Figures 8.2), namely, full and gibbous.
		When an inferior planet is between the Earth and the Sun, its phase is new and it is said to be at inferior conjunction.
		For an inferior planet the synodic period can be defined as the time between two inferior conjunctions and for a superior planet, as the time between two oppositions.
	www.physics.emich.edu /jwooley/chapter8/Chapter8.html (1737 words)

	Coming Full Circle:
		After her inferior conjunction with the Sun, Venus emerges as a morning star, turns direct, reaches maximum western elongation, travels around to the far side of the Sun, makes her superior conjunction, emerges as an evening star, reaches maximum eastern elongation, turns retrograde, and makes her next inferior conjunction 584 days later.
		There are almost exactly 5 of these Venus-Sun conjunction cycles in 8 Earth years, with the result that 5 successive inferior conjunctions of Venus form an almost perfect pentagonal pattern in the zodiac.
		Over the centuries, the inferior conjunctions of Venus slowly march around until one of them occurs near the north or south heliocentric node of Venus (where Venus’s slightly tilted orbit intersects the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun).
	www.alabe.com /fullcircle.html (2752 words)

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