what planets are aligned on may 12 2006?
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y Peijean Tsai\nDaily Bruin Contributor\n\nOn a clear day you can see forever. As long as the sky stays clear over the next two weeks, astronomy lovers will witness a cosmic opportunity that will not reoccur until 2040.\n\nUntil May 15 sky watchers will find the five visible planets – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter – clustered together within 35 degrees of each other in the Western sky as they make their orbits around the sun.\n\nThe rare sight will be visible above the horizon just after sunset and can be viewed with the naked eye.\n\n"We'll all be dead and in the grave before the planets line up like this again," said Jay Farihi, a UCLA graduate student studying physics and astronomy.\n\nStudents and visitors to the UCLA campus have been able to get a closer look at the alignment with the help of telescopes atop the Math Sciences Building.\n\nThe ninth floor houses five telescopes, each 24 inches in diameter, that are used by members of the UCLA Undergraduate Astronomy Society.\n\nThe UAS also hosts weekly planetarium shows on Wednesdays, extending viewing opportunities to community members of all ages, said Matthew Barczys, a UCLA graduate student who helps organize UAS events.\n\nCloudy weather on Wednesday, however, prevented sky watchers from seeing the alignment.\n\n"The weather couldn't get worse than this," said Farihi, expressing disappointment. "Hopefully next Wednesday will be better."\n\nFor Greg Walth, the UAS vice president and a third-year physics student, looking at alignments captures both the entertaining and educational aspects of astronomy.\n\n"You look and you learn, and then you want to learn more," Walth said.\n\nWhile some people fear that planetary alignments could have dangerous effects in the universe, this planetary gathering has no astronomical significance, said Margaret Kivelson, a UCLA professor of earth and space sciences.\n\n"It's just an interesting coincidence, just a very pretty sight in the sky," said Kivelson.\n\nThis particular alignment is not too special for Barczys, who has seen similar arrangements before. He looks forward, however, to May 13 when all five visible planets and the moon can be seen after sunset.\n\nThe same five planets grouped together in May 2000, but the alignment was difficult to observe because of the position of the sun which bleached out the sky, according to the Cranbrook Institute of Science.\n\nMay 2006 there is a possible bright comet: Comet S-W3 73P, Comet 73P / Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, possibly may be a bright sight in the sky, from May 13-June 6. It is closest to earth on May 13 and closest to the sun on June 6 (6-6-06!
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Is there something significant we should know about the Winter Solstice date of December 21, 2012? Yes. On this day a rare astronomical and Mayan mythical event occurs. In astronomic terms, the Sun conjuncts the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic. The Milky Way, as most of us know, extends in a general north-south direction in the night sky. The plane of the ecliptic is the track the Sun, Moon, planets and stars appear to travel in the sky, from east to west. It intersects the Milky Way at a 60 degree angle near the constellation Sagittarius.\n\nThe cosmic cross formed by the intersecting Milky Way and plane of the ecliptic was called the Sacred Tree by the Maya. The trunk of the tree, the Axis Mundi, is the Milky Way, and the main branch intersecting the tree is the plane of the ecliptic. Mythically, at sunrise on December 21, 2012, the Sun - our Father - rises to conjoin the center of the Sacred Tree, the World Tree, the Tree of Life..\n\nThis rare astronomical event, foretold in the Mayan creation story of the Hero Twins, and calculated empirically by them, will happen for many of us in our lifetime. The Sun has not conjoined the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic since some 25,800 years ago, long before the Mayans arrived on the scene and long before their predecessors the Olmecs arrived\n\n\nIt will be the last date on this calendar. Check the foll link for more
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stars, planets, comets, meteors
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Well, in a very general sense, it's best to view stars and *some* planets between 10pm and midnight.  You'd have to look up the positions of each planet (or the major ones, anyway) to figure out when all of them are in sight.
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5063 days (until 4th of Nov 2006) - including leap years
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Only Mars and Saturn are visible.  Towards the end of April, Jupiter will appear.  If you get up early in the morning, you might still be able to catch Venus and Mercury.
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in the third week of may'2006
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Go to Heavens Above.  They have a lot of information about the planets, as well as satellites that have been placed in orbit or sent out into the solar system.\n\nhttp://www.heavens-above.com
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As of April 18th, 2006 we know of 152 planetary systems other than our own containing a total of 176 planets.  This number grows fairly frequently as more and more observations are being made.
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our neighbor in other planets
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Right now it's Venus. Try skyandtelescope.com for questions like that.
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Conjunction is with any number of planets or planets and the sun. (Obviously three things need to line up at least).\n\nI don't think all 9 planets lined up last may but it was an impressive number, like 5.  But I don't know for sure.\n\nAlso you want to remember that even if all 9 line up, they wouldn't form an exactly straight line because their orbital planes are all tilted slightly differently from one another.
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If you pray and work very hard, you will find your situation improve.  The stars are coming into alignment in 2006 for Sagittarius.  This is the year you can turn everything around for yourself.  Don't give up now.
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Aries! Cause my birthday is on April 12th! For real!
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this sunday the 18th of june 2006
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June 15th 2006. It is at 5 pm GMT
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Scientists are delaying the start of 2006 by the first "leap second" in seven years, a timing tweak meant to make up for changes in the Earth's rotation.\n\nThe adjustment will be carried out by sticking an extra second into atomic clocks worldwide at the stroke of midnight Coordinated Universal Time, the widely adopted international standard, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology said this week.\n\nFor more info, visit:\nhttp://www.theage.com.au/news/world/a-year-late/2005/12/25/1135445473624.html