Saturn
- The Jupiter-Saturn synodic period is 19.85887 years (7253.45 days).
- The mutual inclination of the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn is 1.25°.
The most interesting case would be a transit of Jupiter from Saturn. The last one was in 1226, and the next is in 3728; but both are grazing (the center of Jupiter would not appear to pass over the Sun to an observer at the center of Saturn). Jupiter's center last crossed the Sun in 86 BC; the next time comes in 7541. Jupiter will block from five to six percent of the Sun in those transits, more than any other transit involving two planets in the Solar System.
| Transits of Jupiter from Saturn | |
|---|---|
| September 16, 86 BC | |
| May 17, 1226 grazing | |
| October 29, 3728 grazing | |
| October 15, 6171 grazing | |
| April 13, 6687 grazing | |
| March 17, 7541 | |
Read more about this topic: Transit Of Jupiter From Outer Planets
Famous quotes containing the word saturn:
“The forehead and the little ears
Have gone where Saturn keeps the years;
The breast where roses could not live
Has done with rising and with falling.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
“Test of the poet is knowledge of love,
For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove;
Never was poet, of late or of yore,
Who was not tremulous with love-lore.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)