Saturday, January 4, 2020

Bad news for hard SF writers

Clowder's scheduler got us Earth-Venus up to 2233. For my calendar I've been looking toward the end of Clowder's.

Stjerneskinn's almanac for 2199 gives a Venus-Earth "Inferior" Conjunction at 24 June 9 AM, but conks out the next year. SKYCAL conked out January 2101. Their rationale may be that some orbits are too chaotic to bother with, past that... like Mars'.

SILVER LINING 1/1/2021: We allow, the 22nd century will be the interesting century...

Guess I gotta use a calculator. 24 June is, what, 2199.484? So our Conjunction would be 2225.0632. 23 January.

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