This story is from June 18, 2006

Saturn hugs Mars, astrologers squirm

Saturn will hug Mars on Sunday night in a celestial embrace which according to astrologers is a disastrous encounter.
Saturn hugs Mars, astrologers squirm
NEW DELHI: Saturn will hug Mars on Sunday night in a celestial embrace astronomers term conjunction. While skywatchers prepare for a visual feast, astrologers are calling it a disastrous encounter.
Soothsayers have warned that the conjunction is bound to upset the usual order of things. For instance, Brazil, scheduled to play against Australia in a FIFA World Cup tie at 9.30 pm, could be in for a surprise.
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In fact, astrologer Bejan Daruwalla predicts the FIFA World Cup will have an "unusual" winner and the Rakhi Sawant case will further flare up. All because of the planetary hug.
Saturn and Mars will come closest on Sunday night and appear to touch each other.
"In reality, the two are millions of kilometres apart. But viewed from Earth, it will appear as if they are touching. They will be about half a degree away from each other, that is a little less than the width of a little finger held against the sky at an arm's length," says C B Devgan, of SPACE, an NGO.
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