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Venus Transits the Sun


#1 User is offline   JDoors 

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Posted 06 June 2012 - 07:10 PM

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Posted 06 June 2012 - 08:38 PM

Very cool, JDoors:)

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Posted 09 June 2012 - 12:25 PM

Finding out how rare this is makes me realize just how hard a task it is to detect alien planets orbiting other stars by the transit method. For every one they do detect each year there must be hundreds that just passed at the wrong angle or when we were not looking.
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