WordNet
n. (astronomy) the alignment of the Earth and a planet on the same side of the sun
Usage examples of "inferior conjunction".
The company radio there was strong enough to remain in communication at all times except for the sixty days bracketing superior conjunction and a shorter period of solar interference at inferior conjunction.
Thinly scattered though those remnants of a stillborn world are, they could profitably be worked by robots, as could the Jovian moons at times around inferior conjunction.
The sun had fallen below Temple-ton's horizon days ago as Amethi's orbit carried it toward inferior conjunction.
When you approach Ganymede at inferior conjunction, as Meikiejon was doing, the first thing that hits you in the eye is the huge oval blot called Neptune's Trident so named by the earliest Jovian explorers because it was marked with the Greek letter psi on the old Howe composite map.
It flashed through the orbit of the second planet, now hidden from it at inferior conjunction by the expanding white sun.