When did Venus transit the sun in 2012?
June 5th, 2012
On June 5th, 2012, Venus will transit the face of the sun in an event of both historical and observational importance.
How often do Transits of Venus occur?
On average, Transits of Venus happens every 80 years or so. However, this average figure is very misleading, because transits occur in a ‘pair of pairs’ pattern that repeats every 243 years. First, two transits take place in December (around Dec 8th), 8 years apart.
Why do Transits of Venus occur in pairs every 8 years?
Transits usually occur in pairs, on nearly the same date eight years apart. This is because the length of eight Earth years is almost the same as 13 years on Venus, so every eight years the planets are in roughly the same relative positions.
When did Venus last transit the sun?
June 5, 2012
On June 5, 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event—the transit of Venus across the face of the Sun. This event lasted approximately six hours and happens in pairs eight years apart, which are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years.
What is the next transit of Venus?
The next transits of Venus will be in December 2117 and December 2125. Venus transits are historically of great scientific importance as they were used to gain the first realistic estimates of the size of the Solar System.
Which celestial event observed last in June 2012 occurs about once in a century?
Venus transit
Venus’ transit day has passed – the last transit of Venus for the 21st century! The brightest planet, Venus, passed right in front of the sun for nearly seven hours on June 5-6, 2012, but, from many places, the transit was in progress at sunrise or sunset.
What happened to Guillaume Le Gentil?
He finally arrived in Paris in October 1771, having been away for eleven years, only to find that he had been declared legally dead and been replaced in the Royal Academy of Sciences.
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