Sunday, June 3, 2012

Venus transit 2012

  • Buy your solar glasses soon. In Los Angeles, the city-run Griffith Observatory is one of the few known places that is selling equipment for people to view the Transit of Venus directly.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • [Venus Transit of the Sun: A 2012 Observers Guide (Infographic)] Tuesday or Wednesday? The Venus transit will be a west-to-east passage (right to left) taking six hours and 40 minutes.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • As Tuesday afternoon unfolds, celestial observers in the South Sound will turn their attention to the sun, as Venus moves across its face. If the weather allows, this will be the last chance to see the transit for another 105½ years.
  • (Tacoma News Tribune)
  • The transit of Venus in 2012 will begin at about 3:09 p.m. PDT (6:09 p.m. EDT or 2209 GMT) and last nearly seven hours as Venus crosses the face of the sun, according to NASA.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Venera 4 left Baikonur Cosmodrome in the central Soviet Union early in the morning of June 12, 1967.
  • (Wired News)
  • ScienceDaily (June 1, 2012) — On June 5th, 2012, Venus will pass across the face of the sun, producing a silhouette that no one alive today will likely see again. Transits of Venus are very rare, coming in pairs separated by more than a hundred years.
  • (Science Daily)
  • For many space planners in the early 1960s, piloted Solar System exploration using large "post-Saturn" rockets and new-design nuclear-powered spaceships seemed a natural follow-on to the Apollo lunar program.
  • (Wired News)
  • The event is the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical occurrence that will take place on Tuesday, June 5, 2012. It will be visible in parts of North America, Europe and in Hawaii.
  • (DAILY KOS)
  • The so-called transit of Venus actually occurs in pairs a few years apart (the last one was in 2004), and then the phenomenon does not reappear for more than a century.
  • (Staten Island Advance)
  • During the night of the 5th and morning of the 6th of June, Venus will cross the face of the Sun for the last time until 2117.
  • (The Guardian)

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