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Published December 14, 2012, 12:00 AM

Diagram


This is a diagram of the planets of the solar system as seen from above the north pole of the Earth on Dec. 21, 2012. There are no special alignments of planets that day, and even if there were, their gravitational effects on Earth would be negligible.
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