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    The 1882 transit of Venus on 6 December 1882 (13:57 to 20:15 UTC), was the second and last transit of Venus of the 19th century, the first having taken...
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    Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. They were purportedly taken in Japan...
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    A transit of Venus takes place when Venus passes directly between the Sun and the Earth (or any other superior planet), becoming visible against (and...
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    human alive at the time had witnessed a previous Venus transit since that transit occurred on 6 December 1882 in the 19th century. The European Southern Observatory...
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    previous transit of Venus took place on 8 June 2004 (preceded by transits on 9 December 1874 and 6 December 1882); the next pair of transits will occur...
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  • Venus, 1761 Transit of Venus, 1769 Transit of Venus, 1874 Transit of Venus, 1882 Transit of Venus, 2004 Transit of Venus, 2012 Transit of Venus may also...
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    in the 19th century, with the second transit occurring eight years later in 1882. The previous pair of transits had taken place in 1761 and 1769, and...
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    December 1874 and December 1882. The next transit will occur in December 2117 and December 2125. A long-standing mystery of Venus observations is the so-called...
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    Solander recorded the transit of Venus from the island of Tahiti during Cook's first voyage around the world. During a transit, Venus appears as a small...
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    near Earth's perihelion, occur when Venus is near perihelion. An example was the transit of December 6, 1882: Venus reached perihelion Jan 9, 1883, and...
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    solar transit of Venus is an extremely rare event, and the last solar transit of the planet before 2004 was in 1882. The most recent solar transit was in...
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    ISBN 0801409616. Sheehan, William; Westfall, John Edward (2004). The Transits of Venus. University of Michigan. pp. 43–45. ISBN 1591021758. Campion, Nicholas...
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    features. He organized an expedition to Santiago de Chile to observe the Venus transit the Sun in 1882. A second Belgian expedition (led by Jean-Charles...
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    The first known observations and recording of a transit of Venus were made in 1639 by the English astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and his friend and correspondent...
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  • in Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, marking the spot where, in 1882, a transit of Venus was observed and recorded. The monument was added to the National...
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    towards that end led a Brazilian team in their observations of 1882 Transit of Venus in Punta Arenas, Chile. Cruls was born in 1848 in Diest, Belgium...
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    The Master of 19th Century Pornography". Retrieved 3 October 2016. "Transits of Venus and Mercury as muses". "Paul Avril; Avril Paul". Tom Cutler (18 October...
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    of transits of Venus occurred in 2004 and 2012, while the prior pair occurred in 1874 and 1882. In the 19th century, many observers stated that Venus had...
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    it was not found during the transit of Venus in 1761 and 1769. In 1672, Giovanni Cassini found a small object close to Venus. He did not take great note...
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    2006. Retrieved 20 March 2007. "Similarly, we don't see a transit of Venus every time Venus is between Earth and the Sun—which happens about every 584...
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    American astronomer. He produced a complete set of photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus. Todd was born in Lake Ridge, New York, the son of Sereno Edwards...
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    Botanical Garden in 1856 William Bell's stereograph taken on the 1882 transit of Venus expedition. Albert Einstein (center) visiting the Botanical Garden...
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    The possibility of life on Venus is a subject of interest in astrobiology due to Venus' proximity and similarities to Earth. To date, no definitive evidence...
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    November 13, 2032. A typical transit lasts several hours. Mercury transits are much more frequent than transits of Venus, with about 13 or 14 per century...
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    the transit of Venus in 1882 and on several French expeditions to observer solar eclipses. He was a member of the Société Astronomique de France from 1889...
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    terraforming of Venus or the terraformation of Venus is the hypothetical process of engineering the global environment of the planet Venus in order to make...
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    Charles Emile Stuyvaert, to San Antonio to observe a locally visible transit of Venus across the face of the sun. At the time, this was a method of measuring...
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    The Pioneer Venus project was part of the Pioneer program consisting of two spacecraft, the Pioneer Venus Orbiter and the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe, launched...
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  • a transit of Venus in order to determine the solar parallax. Periodicals Bulletins de l'Acadie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique...
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    S2CID 118535095. de la Fuente Marcos, Carlos; de la Fuente Marcos, Raúl (2013). "Asteroid 2012 XE133, a transient companion to Venus". Monthly Notices...
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