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Re: Upcoming Planets 2023 close encounters
From: Antoine Couëtte
Date: 2023 Jan 27, 05:16 -0800
From: Antoine Couëtte
Date: 2023 Jan 27, 05:16 -0800
Dear Robert,
Thanks for your reply.
I fully agree with your own Venus/Mars result on Feb 22nd, 2023 obtained from Solar Experiment [SOLEX] which is an outstandingly amazing Solar Planetary System software package.
For your Venus/Mars "closest approach on 1 July, 7h 6m 39s TT, [with] the angular distance [being] 3.571°" I compute a geocentric center to center result equal to (12,836 +/- 6) ", which is significantly different - by some 20" - from your 3.571° value at 12,856". How can you explain such a difference for this second example - well outside round-off errors - while in the first example both our results are in such a close agreement ?
Best Regards,
Antoine M. Couëtte
