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From: "Andrew Goldish"
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Subject: Simultaneous transits of Venus and Mercury?
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 20:40:36 -0400

In the present era, no, Assuming the planet orbits remain the
same, we can not get simultaneous transits. Transits occur when the
planet is at or near one of its two nodes, and Earth is there, too.
For Mercury this happens obly in May and November; Venus, June and
December. So right away we have at least a month discrepancy. Perhaps
a better inquiry would be: can we have transits of both planets in the
same year? A monthish apart?


AG Is it possible for Venus and Mercury to be transiting the sun at the same
AG time? Assuming the two orbits are independent of each other, it should
AG occur (though extremely rarely: millions of years between double transits
AG probably or something like that).

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