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	The Transit of Venus, 2004 JUNE 8
		Transits of Mercury are much more common than those of Venus, since Mercury orbits the Sun at a much faster rate.
		Transits of Venus generally occur in pairs about eight years apart and can only occur in early June or early December.
		Century Venus transits was the "Transit of Venus March", composed by none other than the legendary leader of the U.S. Marine Band, John Philip Sousa.
	www.usno.navy.mil /pao/ToV040608.shtml (1129 words)

	Transit of Venus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 currently 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.
		Horrocks corrected Kepler's calculation for the orbit of Venus and realised that transits of Venus would occur in pairs 8 years apart, and so predicted the transit in 1639, although he was uncertain of the exact time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transit_of_Venus (1968 words)

	Exploratorium: Transit of Venus
		A Venus transit is a phenomenon in which the disk of the planet Venus passes like a small shadow across the face of the Sun.
		Venus is the second planet from the Sun and Earth is the third, and the planets circle the Sun at different speeds.
		A Venus transit is similar to a solar eclipse, in which the face of the Sun is blocked by the Moon.
	www.exploratorium.edu /venus/P_question1.html (493 words)

	ipedia.com: Transit of Venus Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		The last transit during which Venus was only partially visible in front of the Sun for some areas of the world was on December 6 1631.
		The simultaneous occurrence of a transit of Mercury and a transit of Venus is currently impossible.
	www.ipedia.com /transit_of_venus.html (1458 words)

	Transit of Venus
		You’ll see the position of Venus relative to Earth's orbit (the green line) in the few months leading up to June 8, 2004, and then watch as Venus transits the Sun on that date.
		During the inferior conjunction of June 8, 2004, Venus will be quite close to one of the nodes and will be seen to transit the southern half of the Sun.
		After that, Venus won’t be near one of the nodes during a conjunction until 2117.
	www.exploratorium.edu /venus/question1b.html (264 words)

	Orpington AS - Transit of Venus
		A transit of Venus is like a solar eclipse, but instead of the Moon being in line between the Earth and Sun it is the planet Venus.
		Venus, on the other hand, looks very much smaller from Earth and so you would have to be specifically observing the Sun to see the small disc of Venus passing across its disk.
		Venus appears very small (Venus is only about 58'' - the Sun is about 1890'') as seen from Earth, so as it passes across the Sun, it will be just big enough to be seen without any magnification with the unaided eye through a solar filter.
	www.chocky.demon.co.uk /oas/venus.html (2734 words)

	The transit of Venus, 2012 June 5-6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The five positions of Venus along the time-scale are the exterior (1) and interior (2) contacts at ingress, the least distance to the centre of the solar disk (m) and the interior (3) and exterior (4) contacts at egress.
		The transit of Venus of 2012 June 5-6 for a geocentric observer.
		For the 2012 transit of Venus, the location where you might experience the shortest duration is positioned well in the area of visibility, near 38 degrees south and 170 degrees east, not far from the North Island of New Zealand.
	home.hetnet.nl /~smvanroode/contacts2.html (1699 words)

	Transit of Venus, 2012 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The next (additional info and facts about transit of Venus) transit of Venus will occur on June 5–June 6 in 2012.
		The transit will be best viewed from the (The largest ocean in the world) Pacific Ocean.
		Note that for a pinhole camera to show a Venus transit, the pinhole shold be about one millimeter wide, the distance between the plates about two meters,
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/transit_of_venus,_2012.htm (425 words)

	The Transit of Venus: Predictions for 2012 June 5-6
		The five positions of Venus along the time-scale are the exterior (1) and interior (2) contacts at ingress, the least distance to the centre of the solar disk (m) and the interior (3) and exterior (4) contacts at egress.
		The transit of Venus of 2012 June 5-6 for a geocentric observer.
		For the 2012 transit of Venus, the location where you might experience the shortest duration is positioned well in the area of visibility, near 38 degrees south and 170 degrees east, not far from the North Island of New Zealand.
	www.transitofvenus.nl /details.html (1790 words)

	2012 Transit of Venus
		The global visibility of the 2012 transit is illustrated with the world map in figure 3 (Low Res or High Res).
		Similarly, the transit is already in progress at sunrise for observers in central Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and eastern Africa,.
		The HM Nautical Almanac Office "presents an observational overview of the transits of Venus in the telescopic era as well as the six centuries or so at either end of this period." Details are provided for "the rare phenomena covering the interval from the 11
	www.transitofvenus.org /2012.htm (355 words)

	Venus Transit: Cycles of the Heart
		Venus retrogrades five times in one eight-year "retrograde series"--each retrograde occurs with every Earth-Venus alignment, and so they form in the same sequence that the pentagonal pattern is made (about seven astrological signs between each one).
		The retrogrades of 2004 and 2012 occur in the second half of sidereal Taurus--in the "horns of the bull." El Nath is the north horn and Al Hecka is the south horn.
		Thus, the Venus Transit creates a condition where the harmonizing and beneficent resonances of Venus are highly focused (emblazoned) upon the Earth--inspiring a new level of "intuitive awareness" to permeate Earth and spread in and through human consciousness.
	www.lunarplanner.com /HCpages/Venus.html (3828 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Space - Transit of Venus
		In the eighteenth century, astronomers used the transit of Venus to estimate the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
		During a transit of Venus, the planet Venus passes directly between the Earth and the Sun.
		Transits of Mercury are more common than transits of Venus, and occur every three to thirteen years.
	www.bbc.co.uk /science/space/myspace/nightsky/transitofvenus.shtml (587 words)

	SPACE.com -- NightSky Friday: Plan Ahead: Rare Transit of Sun by Venus
		There is some neat math involved in Venus transits, all related to the predictability of its orbit, which is closer to the Sun than the annual path of Earth.
		Transits of Venus occurred on Dec. 9, 1874 and Dec. 6, 1882.
		When Venus is in transit across the solar disk, the planet appears as a distinct, albeit tiny, round fl spot with a diameter just 1/32 that of the Sun.
	www.space.com /spacewatch/venus_transit_040206.html (1090 words)

	Transit of Venus: June 8th, 2004
		The sharpness of the limbs of Venus and the Sun appears basically limited by the boiling of the atmosphere during the 1/320 second exposure time for this frame and the pixel size of the sensor given the modest size of the Sun in the full frame.
		Venus also a takes a few jumps toward the end; these resulted when the image of the Sun went out of the camcorder's field of view while I was fiddling with the telescope and eyepieces getting ready for third contact and emergence.
		The 2012 transit is visible in full for most of the Pacific Ocean, Australia, east Asia, and Alaska, but is visible in part (the Sun sets before the transit ends or rises while it's already in progress) for most of the inhabited portion of the Earth.
	www.fourmilab.ch /images/venus_transit_2004 (5959 words)

	James Cook and the Transit of Venus
		It was worth the risk, he figured, to observe a transit of Venus.
		Venus' little fl disk, which could only be seen gliding across the blinding sun through special telescopes brought from England, couldn't compete with Tahiti itself.
		Transit Timing Measurements of James Cook and Charles Green -- from The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, from their Commencement, in 1665, to the Year 1800; abridged, with Notes and Biographic Illustrations.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2004/28may_cook.htm (1923 words)

	NASA - Venus Transit: A Celestial Rarity
		The last "Venus transit" occurred more than a century ago, in 1882, and was used to compute the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
		The Venus transit was visible over about 75 percent of the Earth, and ended at sunrise over central and eastern North America.
		During the 19th century, Venus transits were essential for astronomers to fathom the scale of the heavens, because they were used to give a relatively accurate distance from the Earth to the Sun.
	www.nasa.gov /vision/universe/watchtheskies/venus_transit.html (820 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Planet Venus completes transit
		Venus transits occur approximately four times in 243 years, more precisely in pairs of events separated by about eight years and these pairs are separated by about 105 or 121 years.
		The transits have had huge significance in the past, as they were used by scientists to work out the Sun-Earth distance - and hence to get a proper scale for the Solar System.
		The atmospheric pressure at the surface is equivalent to that at a depth of 900m in the Earth's oceans.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/3784293.stm (595 words)

	ESO - Venus Transit 2004
		Transits of Venus across the solar disk are rare events; only seven have taken place since the beginning of the 17th century.
		While this year's transit was optimally visible in its full duration from most of Europe, it will not be so in 2012.
		You will find who they are on the page of the Venus Transit Experience, a conference that summed up the vast experience gained through this unique programme.
	www.eso.org /outreach/eduoff/vt-2004 (1117 words)

	Transit of Venus - what is the transit of venus ? - UCLan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Venus is the second planet from the Sun while we live on the third planet, Earth.
		On 8th June 2004 a transit of venus will be observed from Earth when Venus comes directly between the Sun and our planet and it will be seen to move across the bright solar disk.
		You do not have to wait too long as the next transit of Venus is in 8 years time (6th June 2012).
	www.transit-of-venus.org.uk /transit.htm (592 words)

	Global Spiritual Event: The June 8 Venus Transit
		During this Venus Transit we are invited to imagine and visualize the balancing and integration of polarities within ourselves so that we might manifest externally balance, harmony, peace, unity and divine oneness.
		Venus is the mythic goddess of love and finances, so this transit has deep meaning for us in both the emotional and material realms.
		Indeed, at a mythic level, we could speculate that this Venus Transit is a portal, or an opening, for those who feel a calling to honor the feminine and to engage in her restoration in balance to the male principle, which is so over-dominating the world.
	www.aei.ca /~cep/VenusTransit.htm (11321 words)

	SPACE.com -- Transit Headquarters: Venus Crosses the Sun June 8
		And because the first Venusian transit was only predicted in the 1600s, by Johannes Kepler, only five have been recorded, in 1639, 1761, 1769 and 1874 and 1882.
		Some astronomers are interested in the transit as a way to hone skills for using the related celestial alignments for detecting planets passing in front of other stars and probing the atmospheres of those planets.
		Venus and Earth are similar in size, mass and composition.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/venus_transit_2004.html (1323 words)

	NSO/GONG: Venus Transit 2004
		The actual postion of Venus against the solar disk varies with the observer's location on Earth, hence the value of such observations to early astronomers trying to gauge the size of the solar system.
		Russell, from the Introduction of "Observations of the Transit of Venus, 9 December 1874; Made at Stations in New South Wales", published in Sydney, Australia in 1892.
		Observing, Photographing and Evaluating the Transit of Venus, an international collaborative project between schools, amateur astronomers and universities.
	gong.nso.edu /venus2004 (234 words)

	Chapter 11: Venus
		And speaking of transits, the next transit of Mercury is less than a year away (2003 May 07) and occurs just three weeks before the Iceland/Scotland sunrise annular eclipse (2003 May 31).
		The first transit of Venus since the year 1882 was widely observed across Europe, Asia, Africa and, partially, in the United States on June 8, 2004.
		Venus Express is proposed to be launched on a direct trajectory to Venus with a Soyuz-Fregat rocket from Baikonur in November 2005.
	www.williams.edu /Astronomy/jay/chapter11_etu6.html (926 words)

	Links--Transit of Venus
		Though the transit of Venus expeditions are celebrated for their scientific zeal, they had their own impact on different cultures.
		Images taken of the 2004 transit of Venus, including this picture of the International Space Station passing in front of the sun during the transit.
		Transit of Venus celebrations included exhibits of artifacts and new commemorative artwork; planetarium programs; live viewing of the transit; and a webcast.
	www.transitofvenus.org /links.htm (1303 words)

	The next transit of Venus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The last transit of Venus happened in 1882, but they come i couples (read article), it will only be 8 years to the next one.
		All of Venus is on the solar disk at 23:27:26 (second contact) and the maximum is reached at 02:29:28.
		Visibility of the transit of Venus in 2012.
	www.astronomy.no /venus080604/next.html (404 words)

	2012 Transit of Venus - Cities
		On 2012 June 06 Venus will transit across the disk of the Sun.
		This rare event will be visible from many locations around the world.
		Return to 2004 and 2012 Transits of Venus
	sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov /eclipse/transit/venus/city12-2.html (94 words)

	Polar Flip, Transit Of Venus, and Human Consciouness Of 2012 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Venus is said to be Earth's sister planet.
		Venus is the closest planet to the earth.
		Venus is almost the exact same size as Earth, It's night and days are around the same, and the way it revolves and rotates shows many anomalies to earths orbits.
	www.unexplainable.net /artman/publish/article_870.shtml (7777 words)

	Transit of Venus - 18th Century
		It was used to show clearly why transits of Venus occur at intervals of little over a hundred years and repeat two transits where each transit is separated by eight years i.e.
		Transits of Venus,instruments were calibrated and checked, the long case astronomical regulator clock made by John Shelton number 35 would have been checked here also.
		He is better known for his lectures on astronomy and the models and orreries he used to give a better understanding of the cosmos.
	www.melbourneobservatory.com /18thCentury.htm (895 words)

	Venus Transit & Oneness Celebration
		The Venus transit of Crystal Moon 10 occurs on Blue Electric Monkey.
		At the time of the Venus transit in your local area we suggest you gather in circle to meditate on world unity and lasting peace, the triumph of the harmony of the New Time.
		We are calling people all over the world to observe the days leading up to this Venus Transit, June 6-8, as a time for opening to the bright impulse of cosmic energy that is streaming into the mass consciousness of Humanity.
	www.lawoftime.org /archives/venus-more.html (1098 words)

	Transit of Venus, 2012 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The eclipse will be best viewed from the Pacific Ocean.
		Transit start and end times (in UTC) are given for various international cities and for various US cities.
		HM Nautical Almanac Office: 2012 Transit of Venus
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/transit_of_venus__2012 (393 words)

	The1882 Transit of Venus: Observations from Wellington, South Africa.
		In contrast to Mercury, where transits happen at a rate of 13 to 14 per century, transits of Venus are very rare.
		Previous transit pairs were in 1761 and 1769 and 1874 and 1882 - it was to observe the 1769 transit from Tahiti that Captain Cook had astronomers on board his ship.
		It was scarcely in order when the "Transit of Venus Expedition" from the United States, arrived in Cape Town, and soon after decided upon Wellington as the best astronomical station for their purpose.
	www.saao.ac.za /~wpk/tov1882/tovwell.html (3814 words)

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