Re: Re: VMs: Pleiades Occultation Further Date Refinement

["jan" <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello  Rene,
  
=======  You wrote:  

>> > [RZ:] Robert suggested that there should be no
>> > major planets near the Moon/Pleiades, but for
>> > me it is quite possible that the big 'star'
>> > drawn in the same figure is actually one of
>> > the planets.

Why would the author  - knowing enough about astronomy - 
draw the instantaneous position of the planet near the constellation,
knowing  it will  not be  there all the time anyway? 
Especially  if he was concerned with  constellation only? 
  
>I am not at all challenging your numbers, but want
>to remind people that they are valid for a number
>of assumptions - a numbers of 'ifs' if you will - 
>and we can't be all that sure about several of 
>them.

Actually, you should challenge  the theory, but 
apparently there is  no enough facts to do it. So the next good thing
 is  to attack the assumptions, but that is done based on some other assumptions,
so in my book it amounts to the same probability.  
 
Now seriously: what is your opinion about those stars in the  VM? 
I know you want to be cautions - but since you are the most knowledgeable 
 astronomer in this list, we depend on your opinion. 
Wasthere any serious analysis  like this done before?
Or was it always rejected out of hand,  based  on  somebody's migraine? 
 

Cheers, 
Jan



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