Monday's Planet Views Best Until 2036

An anonymous reader writes "NASA is reporting that Monday night, March 22nd, offers a rare, naked-eye glimpse of our five prominent astronomical neighbors--Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and the Moon--in close proximity in the night sky, near to the familiar Orion constellation. This contrasts with the picture of the 'Fab Five' shot by Voyager looking back on the inner solar system. Monday's aligned view is not likely to appear in this configuration again until 2036."

Comments

Re:"Not likely?"

[notsoclever]

Well, I think that the amazingness of the view is because it's got five planetary-type bodies in view at once.

I was just poking a little fun at how the original poster said it wasn't likely to happen again until 2036 since without any large amount of external force being applied to one of them, the probability of their orbits being affected beyond our current predictions of their orbital mechanics is effectively zero.