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Jupiter to meet Saturn Dec. 21
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Two planets, Jupiter and Saturn will on Dec. 21 have a “Great Conjunction’’, says Prof. Augustine Ubachukwu, a Cosmologist.
According to Ubachukwu, this is coming after the year 1623. Ubachukwu, Lead, Astronomy Research Group, Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Abuja.
He explained a conjunction as when planets appear incredibly close to one another in the sky because they line up with the Earth in their respective orbits.
The cosmologist said scientists in the space environment referred to the meeting of Jupiter and Saturn in the night sky as a great conjunction because it happens less often than the conjunctions of other planets.