Horrocks was concerned that the weather would be unfavourable for the transit as he believed the rare planetary conjunction would produce severe weather:

In late April 2002, a rare great conjunction occurred.

This year's Festival of the Eye is going to be different from most others because all three moons, including the black moon Nuitari, are moving to rare conjunction.

No fun being made a present of the rare and desiccated conjunctions that take place between Geoffrey and me.

During a solar eclipse, an extremely rare grand conjunction of the classical planets occurred, for the first time since 1821.

I do commend the factions for this rare conjunction and hope it bodes well for a peaceful racing season.

He was awarded the CBE in 1949, and the Silver Wolf Award in 1943 - a rare conjunction of awards to mother and son.

We have near neighbors, you see; one is now slightly below the middle of our planet, two above and beyond the Red Star, a rare conjunction.

A second is that a rare conjunction of certain bright planets created the image of a very bright star.

For the rare conjunction of Jupiter, Venus, Mars and the moon last June 14, there was Prof. Ted Williams, astronomer.