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  Transit of Venus - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A transit is similar to a solar eclipse by the Moon, but, although the diameter of Venus is almost 4 times that of the Moon, Venus appears much smaller because it is much further away from the Earth.
Transits of Venus are rare and occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits 8 years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years.
At the suggestion of Edmond Halley, the transit pair of 1761 and 1769 was used to try to determine the precise value of the astronomical unit using parallax.
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /t/tr/transit_of_venus.html   (1425 words)

  
 Astronomical transit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A transit is the astronomical event that occurs when one celestial body appears to move across the face of another celestial body, as seen by an observer at some particular vantage point.
A transit of Mars across Jupiter on 12 Sep 1170 was observed by the monk Gervase at Canterbury, and by Chinese astronomers.
During a transit there are four "contacts", when the circumference of the small circle (small body disk) touches the circumference of the large circle (large body disk) at a single point.
hallencyclopedia.com /Astronomical_transit   (808 words)

  
 Transit of Earth from Mars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A transit of Earth across the Sun as seen from Mars takes place when the planet Earth passes directly between the Sun and Mars, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc for an observer on Mars.
Transits of Earth from Mars follow a 284-year cycle, occurring at intervals of 100.5, 79, 25.5, 79 years in either May or November.
This cycle corresponds fairly closely to 151 Mars orbits, 284 Earth orbits, and 133 synodic periods, and is analogous to the cycle of transits of Venus from Earth, which follow a cycle of 243 years (121.5, 8, 105.5, 8).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transit_of_Earth_from_Mars   (536 words)

  
 Transit of Venus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A transit is similar to a solareclipse by the Moon, but, although the diameter of Venus is almost 4 times that of theMoon, Venus appears much smaller because it is much further away from the Earth.
Transits of Venus are rare and occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits 8 years apart separatedby long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years.
At the suggestion of Edmond Halley, the transit pair of 1761 and 1769 was used to try to determine the precise valueof the astronomical unit using parallax.
www.therfcc.org /transit-of-venus-5735.html   (1112 words)

  
 Distance Between Earth And Saturn -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Saturn: Saturn is the most distant of the five planets known to...
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and is the second largest in the solar system with an equatorial diameter of 119,300 km.
Saturn is visibly flattened at the poles, a result of the very fast rotation of the planet on its axis.
saturn.fmqg.com /index.php?k=distance-between-earth-and-saturn   (1340 words)

  
 Distance From Earth To Saturn -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The distance of Earth from Saturn at inferior conjunction is approximately 8.5 AU...
Saturn is a gas giant, that is a planet composed of a large atmosphere with a small rocky core.
Saturn: Saturn is the most distant of the five planets known to ancient...
saturn.fmqg.com /index.php?k=distance-from-earth-to-saturn   (1336 words)

  
 Saturn transit through Cancer (astrology) - LinkGeneral.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Saturn is a complex and critical planet in chart interpretation and in mapping human territory.
Saturn in Pisces often chooses to deal with things in life that are most corrosive to hope and most offensive to our desire to believe in the concept of progress.
Saturn in Cancer is about resources and the truth is that often there are limitations in material as well as emotional resources with this placement.
www.linkgeneral.com /articles.asp?articleid=1453   (4236 words)

  
 Kepler Mission > Characteristics of Transits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The fractional change in brightness or transit depth is equal to the ratio of the area of the planet to the area of the star.
Because grazing transits are not easily detected, those with a duration less than half of a central transit are ignored.
Since a chord equal to half the diameter is at a distance of 0.866 of the radius from the center of a circle, the usable transits account for 86.6% of the total.
kepler.nasa.gov /sci/basis/character.html   (784 words)

  
 Astronomical transit
One example of a transit involves the motion of a planet beween a terrestrial observer and the Sun.
On November 22 2065 at about 10:20 UTC, Venus near superior conjunction (with an angular diameter of 10.6") will transit in front of Jupiter (with an angular diameter of 30.9"); however, this will take place only 8° west of the Sun, and will therefore not be visible.
All of these times are as seen by a hypothetical observer at the center of the Earth; parallax would cause actual observed times to vary by a few minutes.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/as/astronomical_transit.html   (632 words)

  
 WTPE Article
As a result, Saturn leaves Pisces--sign of the savior who dies for everyone's sins--and enters the new-life sign of Aries on the day that Christ is reborn as a spiritual mutation who can show us a way.
The most recent transit of Saturn through the domain of the red sign (March 1967-April 1969) also saw a cultural revolution that birthed a new era, and in China the adolescent upheaval was led by reactionary Red Guards reciting from Mao's little red book.
During one of the earliest transits of Saturn through Aries (417-414 BCE), Polyclitus began the use of male athletes as sculpture models while vandals hacked the manhood off statues of Mercury as a political "dirty trick." Theater featured Aristophanes' "The Birds" in which sex is withheld by Athenian women as a war protest.
www.mcn.org /greatbear/backarticles/saturn.html   (1193 words)

  
 Sun-Earth Day 2004 Venus Transit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The story of the Transit of Venus is one of Herculean efforts overcoming immense challenges and momentous scientific discoveries that shaped the very way we view ourselves and our place in the universe.
The prediction of the passage (transit) of Venus across the face of the sun would be the key to deriving the distance to the sun, the "Astronomical Unit" or AU.
With each successive transit, the AU was honed further until 1882 when observations of the planet Venus from different points on the Earth, as it crossed the disk of the sun yielded a sun-Earth distance (astronomical unit) of 92,702,000 miles.
sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov /sunearthday/2004/vt_vtstory_2004.htm   (1396 words)

  
 HUYGENS PROBE FACTS AND INFORMATION
The signal strength received at Earth from ''Huygens'' was comparable to that from the ''Galileo'' probe (the atmospheric descent probe) as received by the VLA, and was therefore too weak to detect in real time because of the signal modulation by the (then) unknown telemetry.
As ''Huygens'' is too small to transmit directly to Earth, it is designed to transmit the telemetry data obtained while descending through Titan's atmosphere to ''Cassini'' by radio, which would in turn relay it to Earth using its large 4-meter diameter main antenna.
Doppler radio measurements of ''Huygens'' from Earth were made, though not as accurate as expected measurement that ''Cassini'' would have made; when added to accelerometer sensors on ''Huygens'' and VLBI tracking of the position of the Huygens probe from Earth, reasonably accurate wind speed and direction measurements can still be derived.
www.palfacts.com /Huygens_probe   (2885 words)

  
 Venus Transit Casts Earth Shadow :: Astrobiology Magazine :: Search for Life in the Universe
Using data from NASA's SORCE satellite, scientists noticed that, when Venus came between the Earth and the sun on June 8, the other planet reduced the amount of sunlight reaching Earth by 0.1 percent.
This Venus transit occurs when, from an earthly perspective, Venus crosses in front of the sun.
"Because of its distance from Earth, Venus appeared to be about the size of a sunspot," said Gary Rottman, SORCE Principal Investigator and a scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
www.astrobio.net /news/article1095.html   (599 words)

  
 NASA's Cosmicopia -- Ask Us -- Earth and Moon
The Earth is not a perfect sphere, so the distance to the center of the Earth varies from 6378 km (3963 miles) at the equator to 6357 km (3950 miles) at the poles.
Since the Earth is revolving around the Sun, it actually has to rotate almost one degree (360 degrees/365.25 days) further until the Sun is in the same place in the sky, which is the definition of a day that everyone is used to.
From The Nine Planets, the diameter of the Earth is 12,756 km, and the diameter of the Moon is 3,476 km.
helios.gsfc.nasa.gov /qa_earth.html   (10674 words)

  
 CNN.com - Cassini races toward Saturn orbit - Jun 30, 2004
This image of Saturn was captured by Cassini as it approached the planet.
SATURN: Planet second in size to Jupiter with a diameter of 74,898 miles (120,511 km).
The Saturn orbiter and Titan probe were conceived as a mission that would benefit the scientific and, technological sectors of the scientists' respective countries.
www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/space/06/30/cassini.orbit   (1361 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Transit of Earth from Mars Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
]] A transit of Earth across the Sun as seen from Mars takes place when the planet Earth passes directly between the Sun and Mars, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc for an observer on Mars.
Transit of Earth from Mars Article - ipedia.com
Jean Meeus & Edwin Goffin, Transits of Earth as Seen from Mars, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 93 (1983), 120–123 [1]
www.ipedia.com /transit_of_earth_from_mars.html   (552 words)

  
 saturn by ben bova - book review for zone-sf.com
Saturn continues Ben Bova's 'grand tour of the Solar system' but this episode is rather a letdown.
As agnostic and atheistic types, they cannot prosper on Earth but neither do they know that this mission is intended to be an experiment in human societies and its chief administrator is an anthropologist.
Instead the transit seems to be largely automated while the potential magnificence of space and the Solar system is largely left to the reader's imagination.
www.zone-sf.com /saturnbb.html   (537 words)

  
 Solar System Bodies: Earth · Astrological defintion of Solar System Bodies: Earth · Astrology Encyclopedia
Astrologically, the Earth is the center of its universe, since one is concerned not with the position of the planets in reference to the Sun, but with the angle from which their reflected frequencies enter into the experience of those who dwell upon the Earth.
The velocity of the Earth in its orbit is approximately 18.5 miles per second.
Correction of Mean to Sidereal Time · Transit · Transit of a planet across the Sun ·; Transitor · Translation of Light · Transmutation · Trigon · Trigonocrators · Trimorion · Trine · Trinities · Triplicities · Tropical Signs · Tropical Year ·; True Solar Day · Trutine · Twilight
www.astrologyweekly.com /dictionary/solar-system-bodies-earth.php   (791 words)

  
 Venus Transit 2004 - Photo Archive
This contributed to convince him that Venus moves around the Sun and is illuminated by this body and that the Sun, not the Earth, is at the centre of the world.
Quite a few observers of the Venus Transit remarked upon a rare optical phenomenon which could be perceived at the moment of the second and third contacts.
When exchanging their photos, observers of the Venus Transit who were located at different sites were able to demonstrate the "parallax effect".
www.vt-2004.org /photos   (790 words)

  
 Computing sun & moon transits by the International Space Station
From the predicted time of the transit, and the moon's position in the sky (nearly overhead), one can infer that the moon should be nearly full that night.
One way to look at it is to imagine that the transit track ran along the ridge line of a 57° steep, 900 ft high plateau; someone at the top of the plateau would be nearer the ISS, while making basically the same observation as a person at the base of the plateau.
Simultaneous solar transits of the ISS and Venus, 8 Jun '04
iss-transit.sourceforge.net   (1532 words)

  
 Books, tapes, videos - Saturn in Transit report and more
Saturn, god of the 'saturine' disposition, is popularly associated with doom and gloom.
Saturn assists the modern hero and heroine, during its transit around the zodiac, by destroying the old and outmoded within, and throwing us periodically into chaos, which invariably generates a creative transformation of our purpose in life.
She has interpreted thsese movements in a way that is immediately apparent and useful to both novice and professional astrologers, and provides both psychological and mundane interpretations of retrograde planets.
www.erinsullivan.com /books_tapes_videos.htm   (990 words)

  
 CNN.com - Cassini enters Saturn orbit - Jul 1, 2004
The Cassini mission to enter Saturn's orbit is a success.
During the planned four-year study of Saturn and its colorful entourage of 31 moons, Cassini will never pass again as close to the planet or its rings as it did early Thursday.
Scientists hold a news conference -- with a model of the Cassini probe in the foreground -- after Saturn orbit was achieved early Thursday.
www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/space/07/01/cassini.orbit   (1381 words)

  
 Huygens_probe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Huygens separated from the Cassini orbiter on December 25, 2004, and landed on Titan on January 14, 2005 near the Xanadu region.
Very large radio telescopes on Earth were also listening to Huygens's 10-watt transmission using the technique of very long baseline interferometry and aperture synthesis mode.
For details about transits of the Earth as seen from Saturn, see also Transit of Earth from Saturn.
www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Huygens_probe   (3007 words)

  
 Astrological, Saturn, transit Leo, repairing Cancer, June, Maggie Kerr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Our old friend Saturn takes between 29 to 30 years to circuit father Sun, so every 2.3 years or so he brings his enormous societal influence toward structuring and developing the next 30 year phase of the sign he is passing through.
Saturn’s business is to “grow you up” as I say, or to force the reality of structure, order, discipline, responsibility, and the necessary commitment within us to bring about long term results.
From July 2005 until September 2007 Saturn will transit Leo, during which phase we may begin to actually meet some true leaders with more Spiritual and humanistic goals and aspirations, who have been waiting to emerge from behind the scenes.
www.universalastrology.com.au /article12.htm   (1018 words)

  
 Transit of Venus 2004 - live webcast
After more than seven years and several billion kilometres, the Huygens spacecraft has landed on the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
Within hours of touchdown, pictures of the moon's surface were beamed back to Earth.
The spacecraft that carried Huygens from Earth, Cassini, continues to orbit Saturn and send back amazing pictures of the planet and its moons.
www.transit.csiro.au   (215 words)

  
 Saturn in Transit And The Captain`s Wife
Drawing on classical myth, and the work of C. Jung and Joseph Campbell, the author examines Saturn`s useful and developmental influence in our lives and the manifestation of the astrological symbols in the individual and collective unconscious.
In 1856, Mary Patten is accompanying her husband, a ship`s captain, on a voyage around Cape Horn when, at the equator, he becomes ill and unable to command.
Forced to take over the running of the ship, Mary must also earn the respect of the crew and care for her sick husband.
www.concordintertrade.com /saturn.htm   (89 words)

  
 here you get transit of saturn into leo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
political trends associated with the transit of Saturn in tropical Cancer in 2003 and 2004.
As we leave Venus and move off into space, we arrive at Earth and watch as Venus...
Monday, September 06, 2004 Saturn Transit 2004/Shani Transit 2004/Saturn Transit in Cancer/Shani Gochara 2004 Saturn Transit...
www.cyrill2k.de /transit_of_saturn_into_leo.html   (292 words)

  
 Transit of Earth from Mars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Oddly enough, the short story was first published in the January 1971 issue of Playboy magazine.
This is close to the modern value of 1/154 (many sources will cite somewhat different values, such as 1/193, because even a difference of only a couple of km in the values of Mars's polar and equatorial radii gives a considerably different result).
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/transit_of_earth_from_mars   (544 words)

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