Four planets

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IT IS a very rare event to see four planets occupying the same part of the sky. I have occasionally seen two planets pass each other and sometimes I've even seen three, but never four.

For several mornings before the break of dawn, I would go to a local park to witness this phenomenon, where Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury were all close together in the sky.

On subsequent nights the planets began drifting away from each other following their eternal elliptical paths around the sun.