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Summary

Description Venus pentagram.png	English: The planet Venus orbits just over 13 times for every 8 orbits of the Earth , creating a pentagrammic pattern of inferior conjunctions . Each successive inferior conjunction occurs after about 1.6 Earth years and therefore shifts about 144 degrees in the direction opposite the Earth's orbital motion. During each cycle of 8 Earth years, the pentagram precesses about 1.5 degrees in the direction of Earth's orbital motion, reflecting the fact that the Earth:Venus orbital ratio is an approximate ('near') rather than a perfect orbital resonance . (Text written by TomRuen , FelineAvenger , and WolfmanSF )
Date	24 September 2007 Motion of planet venus over 5 successive inferior conjunctions follows a pentagram pattern, precessing 2/5 of an orbit between conjunctions.
Source	Computed, Originally uploaded to the English language Wikipedia Here's a similar plot from 1799! from James Ferguson’s, Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles,1799 ed., plate III, opp. p. 67.
Author	Own work by Tomruen
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Original upload log

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• 22:11, 30 October 2007 (UTC) McLoaf 853×792 (8 KB)
• 09:07, 12 October 2007 (UTC) Max Elf 0×0 (29 KB) (Reverted to version as of 20:43, 24 September 2007)
• 09:06, 12 October 2007 (UTC) Max Elf 0×0 (53 KB) (Reverted to version as of 20:54, 24 September 2007)
• 20:56, 24 September 2007 (UTC) Tomruen 0×0 (51 KB) (One more try to make pretty)
• 20:54, 24 September 2007 (UTC) Tomruen 0×0 (53 KB) (Make dots bigger for better thumbnail appearance)
• 20:43, 24 September 2007 (UTC) Tomruen 0×0 (29 KB) (Motion of planet [[venus]] over 5 successive [[inferior conjunction]]s follows a [[pentagram]] pattern, precessing 2/5 of an orbit between conjunctions. [[Image:FullSkyAstronomySoftwareLogo.png|thumb]])