Mercury will spend five-hours trekking across the sun starting at 2:12 p.m. EST in America. People in Western time zones of the United States should be able to see the entire trip and it will also be visible in North and South America, Australia and Asia, but not in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and India, where it will be nighttime. The last "transit of Mercury," as it's called, was in 2003. These events occur about 13 times a century, with the next one happening in 2016, according to NASA. That's more frequent than the transit of Venus, which happens in pairs, roughly twice in each century. (The next one is 2012). Just so you know.
Monday, November 06, 2006
[astronomy] mercury crossing sun on wednesday
Mercury will spend five-hours trekking across the sun starting at 2:12 p.m. EST in America. People in Western time zones of the United States should be able to see the entire trip and it will also be visible in North and South America, Australia and Asia, but not in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and India, where it will be nighttime. The last "transit of Mercury," as it's called, was in 2003. These events occur about 13 times a century, with the next one happening in 2016, according to NASA. That's more frequent than the transit of Venus, which happens in pairs, roughly twice in each century. (The next one is 2012). Just so you know.
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Give us some notice of the Venus transition closer to the time -- I nearly missed the last one this year (or last, I cannot remember).
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