Transits

Some questions:

To what extent are there other transits in the solar system? For instance,
how often do these happen...

A transit of Earth as seen from Mars?
A transit of Jupiter as seen from Saturn?

Also, when is the next total eclipse of the Sun which occurs during a
transit of Venus?

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Some questions:

To what extent are there other transits in the solar system? For instance,
how often do these happen...

A transit of Earth as seen from Mars?
A transit of Jupiter as seen from Saturn?

Also, when is the next total eclipse of the Sun which occurs during a
transit of Venus?


I'll leave the transit of Jupiter to the experts :-) but the last
transit of Earth was on 11 May 1984, the next one is 10 November 2084
(thanks to Jan Meeus for predicting it and Arthur Clarke for writing a
short story about it)
Thanks to Jan Meeus again we know the next transit during a total
eclipse is on 5 April 15232. There are several transits of Mercury
before then (source is the Journal of the BAA volume 114 June 2004)

"The Last Danish Pastry" wrote in message
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Some questions:

To what extent are there other transits in the solar system?

I think I heard something about Mercury getting between the Sun and the
Earth a few years ago. If that happens it won't be as spectacular as a
Venus transit, because Mercury is smaller and it's a lot closer to the Sun
(so farther from us).

For instance,
how often do these happen...

A transit of Earth as seen from Mars?
A transit of Jupiter as seen from Saturn?

Also, when is the next total eclipse of the Sun which occurs during a
transit of Venus?

There was a Mercury transit in early May 2003. It happens far more
frequently than T of Venus - 14 transits per century.
Have a look at:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040606.html
cheers
Bill


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"The Last Danish Pastry" wrote in message
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Some questions:

To what extent are there other transits in the solar system?

I think I heard something about Mercury getting between the Sun and the
Earth a few years ago. If that happens it won't be as spectacular as a
Venus transit, because Mercury is smaller and it's a lot closer to the Sun
(so farther from us).

For instance,
how often do these happen...

A transit of Earth as seen from Mars?
A transit of Jupiter as seen from Saturn?

Also, when is the next total eclipse of the Sun which occurs during a
transit of Venus?

"Landy" wrote in message
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There was a Mercury transit in early May 2003. It happens far more

I missed the news that time. I heard something about that a lot earlier.

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:07:23 +0000 (UTC), "Mr. 4X"
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"Landy" wrote in message
:

There was a Mercury transit in early May 2003. It happens far more

I missed the news that time. I heard something about that a lot earlier.


Here is a pic of the Mercury Transit from Nov 99 which they posted
on APOD a couple of days ago:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040608.html





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