Do any astronomical phenomena occur every 800 years?

I can imagine some pretty darn rare planetary occultations, such as Jupiter ECLIPSING Saturn or something along those lines, but without a reliable planetarium simulator at my disposal, and LOTS of time, I have no idea if these are one in a thousand year or one in 10,000 year events. Perhaps as a science fair project, someone would like to search for all of the rare, unusual planetary conjunctions and occultations.

Cool!

Yeah...right!!


Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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