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Originally Posted by BigDon
In the ATM section in the "Is Venus Bugging Us?" thread someone is passing on a theory that influenza outbreaks coincide with the conjuctions. As I'm kind of being ignored there I'd thought I'd ask this here.
One: What the heck is a inferior conjuntion of Venus with Earth?
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It's where Venus passes "between" the Earth and the Sun. Due to orbital inclinations, Venus usually winds up either above or below the Sun as seen from Earth, although this wasn't the case in
June, 2004.
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Originally Posted by BigDon
Two: Do they ever occur outside of the Autumn/Winter months?
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Sure. They can happen any day of the year (see above re the June, 2004 inferior conjunction). It's all a product of orbital periods and mechanics.
The bit about flu, etc., is, at best, malarky.