Subject: Conjunction of Saturn & Jupiter impossible in TP
From: jmss89@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Scott JMS)
Date: 1991-10-02, 06:29
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

To quote from the ^Twin Peaks^ Timeline:

> >      Briggs: "There's a time if Jupiter and Saturn meet, they will receive
> >      you."  He also says something like "That gum you like is coming back"
> >      backwards.

> >   -- Andy looks at the petroglyph again.  Cooper figures out from a book
> >      that the petroglyph tells of a time when Jupiter and Saturn are in
> >      conjunction.  Briggs mutters "protect the queen" and "fear and love
> >      open the doors."  Andy knocks the bonsai to the floor.  Truman goes
> >      to pick it up and discovers the bug.

Sorry folks, but there is NO way Saturn and Jupiter could be in conjunction
in early 1989, when TP is set;

The last conjunction was in 1981, and the next will be on
                31st May 2000 at 10:00 UT (=GMT)

Info from "The Amateur Astronomer" by Antonin Rukl, ISBN 0 7064 1034 3

Nice try though.

  Jon                                           FIRE, walk with me