"Slime" <fak### [at] emailaddress> wrote:
> > We'll never see the shadow from earth.
>
> Saturn is 9.54 AU away from the sun (Earth is 1), so the maximum possible
> angle between our line of sight to Saturn and the incoming light direction
> on Saturn is 2*asin(.5/8) = 7.2 degrees. So it should be possible to see a
> sliver of the shadow when our orbits are in the right positions.
>
>  - Slime
>  [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]

Cool!  I thought we might see a little of it with super-powerful telescopes
:)

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