But except for the rare planetary configuration, which was more a scattering than a lineup and thus not much of a syzygy at all, astronomers called it a humdrum day.
Many decades of asteroid and comet characterization have yielded formation models that explain the mass distribution, chemical abundances and planetary configuration of the Solar System today, but there has been no way of telling whether the Solar System is typical of planetary systems.
Other experts suggest that it is not so much the planetary configuration as Earthbound geopolitical considerations that weigh on India's mind, specifically the rivalry with China.
So in the light of the inevitability of this planetary configuration, who, if anyone, has messed with this election?
The possible existence of such a planet buttresses the increasing evidence that planetary systems form around every possible configuration; in particular, binary systems had been traditionally discounted as too unstable to maintain planets.
In a surprise for astronomers who thought they knew how planetary systems form, the orbits of the new planets are sandwiched between the orbits of the older, bigger, gassier ones, a configuration that does not occur in our own solar system.
The developed planetary gearset and dual clutch configuration provides five operation modes.
The manner in which gas is removed from a protoplanetary disk, he explained, may also "have as much influence on the ultimate configuration of the planetary system as does the lifetime of the disk".
The paper deals with the global, reactor scale modelling and simulation of metal organic vapour phase epitaxy (MOVPE) growth of GaAs-based III V compound semiconductor thin films in large production scale Planetary Reactor® with various wafer load configurations.
These systems are rarely found with planet pairs in mean-motion resonances (MMRs) — configurations in which the planetary orbital periods exhibit a simple integer ratio — but there is a mysterious overabundance of planet pairs lying just wide of the first-order resonances.
