The Qatari Calendar House announced that, God willing, the smallest planet in our solar system, the planet Mercury, will reach the farthest point from Earth tomorrow evening, Friday, in an astronomical phenomenon known as the phenomenon of the outer conjunction of Mercury with the sun, at 1:53 pm Doha time. Where Mercury will be at a distance of approximately 202 million kilometers from Earth. Dr. Bashir Marzouk, an astronomer at the Dar, stated that the phenomenon of the external conjunction of Mercury is one of the important astronomical phenomena because it is considered an indicator of the transition of the planet Mercury from its appearance in the dawn sky before sunrise (above the eastern horizon) to its appearance in the evening sky after sunset (above the western horizon). Note that during the coming weeks, the angular distance between Mercury and the sun will increase, so that residents of the State of Qatar and the countries of the Arab region will be able to observe Mercury in the evening sky above the western horizon after sunset during the first week of next April.
