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	Transit of Venus Information
		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 the rarest of all predictable astronomical phenomena and currently occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years.
		Based on his observation of the transit of Venus of 1761 in Petersburg, Mikhail Lomonosov predicted the existence of an atmosphere on Venus.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Transit_of_Venus (2275 words)

	Venus
		Venus has the densest atmosphere of the terrestrial planets, consisting mostly of carbon dioxide, and the atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface is 90 times that of the Earth.
		Venus' atmosphere was discovered as early as 1790 by Johann Schröter.
		Venus was observed by the Galileo and Cassini spacecraft during flybys on their respective missions to the outer planets, but Magellan would otherwise be the last dedicated mission to Venus for over a decade.
	articles.gourt.com /en/Venus (5442 words)

	Venus Information - Online Prescription Medication Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Venus has the densest atmosphere of the terrestrial planets, consisting mostly of carbon dioxide, and the atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface is 90 times that of the Earth.
		Venus was observed by the Galileo and Cassini spacecraft during flybys on their respective missions to the outer planets, but Magellan would otherwise be the last dedicated mission to Venus for over a decade.
		Venus was important to the Mayan civilization, who developed a religious calendar based in part upon its motions, and held the motions of Venus to determine the propitious time for events such as war.
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	Venus - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Venus has a very slow retrograde rotation, meaning that, unlike with most planets, the direction of rotation (around its axis) is the opposite of its orbital rotation (around the Sun).
		Venus was known to ancient Babylonians around 1600 BC, and to the Mayan civilization (the Mayans developed a religious calendar based on Venus's motion) and must have been known long before in prehistoric times, given that it is the third brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon.
		Venus has an atmosphere consisting mainly of carbon dioxide and a small amount of nitrogen, with a pressure at the surface about 90 times that of Earth (a pressure equivalent to a depth of 1 kilometer under Earth's oceans); its atmosphere is also roughly 90 times more massive than ours.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Venus (2746 words)

	Transit of Venus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena and currently occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years.
		Based on his observation of the transit of Venus of 1761 from the Petersburg Observatory, Mikhail Lomonosov predicted the existence of an atmosphere on Venus.
		Transits of Venus - Kiss of the goddess.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transit_of_Venus (2991 words)

	Transit of Venus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena and currently occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years.
		Johannes Kepler was the first to predict a transit of Venus in 1631, but no one observed it, because Kepler's predictions were not sufficiently accurate to predict that the transit would not be visible in most of Europe.
		The first observation of a transit of Venus was made by Jeremiah Horrocks from his home in Much Hoole, near Preston in England, on 4 December 1639 (November 24 under the Julian calendar then in use in England).
	transit-of-venus.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Transit_of_Venus (3611 words)

	Transit of Venus information - Search.com
		Transits and Transit Levels from David White, CST, Arise, South
		Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon (1997) includes a fictionalized account of the 1761 transit, within a background story involving Dutch Cape Colony slavery.
		The Venus Transits of 1761 & 1769 (an historical review, with interesting anecdotes)
	www.search.com /reference/Transit_of_Venus (2284 words)

	Venus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is the brightest object in the night sky, except for the Moon, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6.
		Venus is always brighter than the brightest stars, with its apparent magnitude ranging from −3.8 to −4.6.
		Likewise believing Venus to be two bodies, the Ancient Greeks called the morning star Φωσφόρος, Phosphorus, the "Bringer of Light" or Εωσφόρος, Eosphorus, the "Bringer of Dawn"; the evening star they called Hesperos (Ἓσπερος, the star of the dusk) — by Hellenistic times, it was realized they were the same planet.
	www.askmore.net /en/Venus.htm (6055 words)

	directopedia : Directory : Arts : Movies : Titles : V : Venus and Mars
		Venus has a very slow retrograde rotation, meaning that, unlike with most planets, the direction of rotation on its axis is the opposite of its orbital revolution around the Sun.
		The pentagram has long been associated with the planet Venus and the worship of the goddess Venus, or her equivalent.
		Radar image of the surface of Venus, centered at 180 degrees east longitude.
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Arts-Movies/Titles-V-Venus_Mars.shtml (5636 words)

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		The planet is covered with an opaque layer of highly reflective clouds and its surface cannot be seen from space in visible light, making it a subject of great speculation until some of its secrets were revealed by planetary science in the 20th century.
		To an observer on the surface of Venus, the Sun would appear to rise in the west and set in the east every 116.75 days (which corresponds to the period of continuous sunlight, on the Earth an average of 12 hours).
		Venus is known to be moonless, though the asteroid 2002 VE currently maintains a quasi-satellite orbital relationship with it.
	www.andhrapradeshin.com /wiki-Venus (6405 words)

	Venus
		Venus was named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty, but is now known to be very different from Earth.
		Venus is the second closest planet to the Sun.
		Venus in the 18th and 19th centuries sought to...
	www.netactics.co.uk /venus.html (419 words)

	Mat Maneri Discography
		01.02.11 / Franz Koglmann: Venus in Transit / between the lines
		01.06.00 / Pandelis Karayorgis / Mat Maneri Quintet: Disambiguation / Leo Records
		{Primary Source: AUM014; venue via JAZZIZ Magazine, November 2000}
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