Planet planet Venus, that probably dates as early as the second millennium BC. The MUL.APIN is a pair of cuneiform tablets dating from the 7th century BC that lays out the motions of the Sun, Moon, and planets over the course of the year. The Babylonian astrologers also laid the foundations of what would eventually become Western astrology. The "Enuma anu enlil", written during the Neo-Assyrian period in the 7th century BC, comprises a list of omens and their relationships with various celestial phenomena including the motions of the planets. Venus, Mercury, and the outer planets Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were
Kinetic closest pair a local KDS for maintenance of the closest pair. The second kinetic approach is based on the following observations. If the space around a point is divided angularly into six "wedges", each wide, the closest point to is the closest of the closest points in each of the wedges. The rest of this article will focus on the "main" wedges (those bisected by the x-axis), and symmetrical arguments will apply to the other wedges after rotating the plane by . Points and are said to be "matched" if they are the closest points to each other. Clearly, the closest pair