According to the usually reputable Space Reporter, Saturn will be directly between Earth and the Sun this weekend.
Bwuh?
This should be interesting…
The fun part for bad reporting like this is to try and figure out what the author meant. I really hope she meant “between X and Y as they appear in the night sky”, but I have no idea what X and Y would be.
Someone doesn’t know what an AU is.
Someone made a typo. heh
WAG: They meant the Earth would be between the sun and Saturn (and Mars apparently)
Maybe karol was right.
Someone was unclear on the concept. Hardly a typo. Thsi is a typo.
You take that back! MY MOTHER WAS A SAINT!!!
I think his claim was that Saturn and the Sun are both between the Earth and itself.
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Journalists can often find the details a bit perplexing. One of the papers here was getting very excited about the occultation next week, announcing that the moon would be obscured as Saturn passed in front of it.
I think this is right, looking at http://www.solarsystemscope.com/
What part of this are you not getting?
Clearly the core concept Lana!
Reminds me of the deliberately and hilariously wrong definitions in Tom Weller’s underappreciated (and out-of-print) Science Made Stupid:
So Saturn will be in eclipse!
This page has it (and Cvltvre Made Stvpid) for download by permission of the author.
I don’t think the sun usually appears in the night sky, so this should be a rare occurrence, indeed.
“Saturn, eh?” is an anagram of Sun, Earth.
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At 8.9 astronomical units away, Saturn will make it closest approach to Earth on Saturday.
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Looks like they fixed it.
Saturn is always between the Earth and Sun…
…in the dictionary!