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 Transit
Summary
Type of Transit: Transit of Venus
Date: June 5, 2012
Next Transit of Venus: December 2117
Occurances: The transits occur in a regular pattern, every 8
years, 121.5 years, 8 years and 105.5 years. The last was in 2004,
the next is in 2012 and the one after that in 2117.
Denver Circumstances
External Ingress: 4:05 p.m. MDT
Internal Ingress: 4:23 p.m. MDT
Greatest Transit: 7:25 p.m. MDT
Internal Egress: 10:30:57 MDT (not visible)
External Egress: 10:48:50 MDT (not visible)
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WEB RESOURCES
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** Local Circumstances
2012
Transit of Venus - NASA Goddard
Transit of Venus - Astronomers Without
Borders
Transit of Venus - NASA
Eclipse website
Transit of Venus 2012 - Wikipedia
Web Articles
Why Transits are so Rare
A Brief History of the Transit of Venus
Transit of Venus, Looking Forward, Looking Back
Venus observed as an extrasolar
planet
HST Proposal 12537
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MULTIMEDIA
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IMAGES______________________
 DMNS-Transit of Venus.jpg
 2012 Venus Transit
Map
MOVIES ___________________
 The 2012 Transit of Venus
INTERACTIVES______________
 Solar System Simulator
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