Solar System August 2020

Starting july 4 2020 and through august 2020 the eight planets in the sky will form a parade of planets.

Solar system august 2020. A planet parade of this type happened on april 18 2002 when all planets of the solar system that are visible to the naked eye lined up in a row in the evening sky. Sometime in late august or early september 2020 2020 sep 01 16 12 utc with 8 days 8 minutes uncertainty near earth object 2011 es4 between 22 and 49 meters 73 to 162 feet across will pass the earth at between 0 2 and 41 2 lunar distances nominally 0 3 traveling at 8 16 kilometers per second 18 260 miles per hour. All the solar system planets mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus neptune plus the dwarf planet pluto will line up on one side of. Nasa aubrey gemignani for the second year in a row a total solar eclipse will cross the southern end of south america.

The last time we saw nasa s mars 2020 perseverance rover mission was on july 30 2020 as it disappeared into the black of deep space on a trajectory for mars. According to preliminary forecasts such planet parades will take place in july 2020 in march and june of 2022 in 2040 and 2854. A total solar eclipse seen on monday august 21 2017 above madras oregon. A new analysis of meteorites from the inner solar system home to the four rocky planets suggests that earth s building blocks delivered enough water to account.

From july 04 2020 to august 2020 all eight planets are one on side of the sun or a planetary alignment. On august 9th mars will appear super close to the moon before dawn. According to forecasts on july 4 2020 a rare and unique planet parade will occur. But with nasa s eyes on the solar system you can follow in real time as humanity s most sophisticated rover and the ingenuity mars helicopter traveling with it treks millions of.

Although there is no official scientific term planet parade it is widely used in astronomy to denote an astronomical event that takes place when planets of the solar system line up in a row in the same area of the sky as seen by.