The 2012 transit of Venus,
when the planet Venus
appeared as a small, dark disk moving across the face of the Sun, began at 22:09 UTC on 5 June 2012,
and finished at 04:49 UTC on 6 June.
Depending on the position of the observer, the exact times varied by up to ±7
minutes. Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable celestial phenomena and
occur in pairs, eight years apart, which are themselves separated by more than
a century:The previous transit of Venus took place on
8 June 2004 (preceded by the pair of appearances on 9 December 1874
and 6 December 1882), and the next pair of transits will occur on
10–11 December 2117 and in December 2125.
No comments:
Post a Comment