Does anyone know when the solar system came the closest to a full syzygy?

Question by Izayah: Does anyone know when the solar system came the closest to a full syzygy?
I know we have never had a full one, but when was the closest to it?


Best answer:
Answer by RaymondIt depends what you mean by a syzygy. Purists will insist that a true syzygy means a perfect alignment, so that one object appears merged with the other (eclipses, appulses, etc.). The syzygy of March 21, 1894, involving four bodies (Earth was not one of them) is the closest that I know about.

However, the "modern" definition of syzygy, especially as used in astrology or in hoax-building, is very vague. The last syzygy involving ALL the other planets (as seen from Earth) was in March 1982, when all the planets (including Pluto back then) were in the same 95-degree sector.

This fact was used in the development of a doomsday hoax called The Jupiter Effect (written in 1974).

This is the hoax that was copied-and-pasted into the Big 2012 Hoax.

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