by Marcelo J. Albuquerque
Question by : is it true: both Venus traveling across the sun & a solar eclipse will occur in 2012?
and the only place you can view these events in the western hemisphere is on a remote island off Chile. the History channel show says that Venus crossing the sun is rare. How rare is it? how often does it occur? it(venus) occurs 200 days before Dec 21, 2012.
ok, so are transits of Venus viewable everywhere? or just on this remote island off the coast of Chile?
Best answer:
Answer by Viola At NeonYes. None of this has anything to do with 21 December 2012, unless you're some sort of gullibility victim. Or just plain dumb.
Transits of Venus occur in pairs 8 years apart, with about a century between the pairs. The last pair were in 1874 and 1882. This pair are in 2004 and 2012. The next pair will be in 2117 and 2125. This has been known for centuries.
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is it true: both Venus traveling across the sun & a solar eclipse will occur in 2012?
Solar Shades Eclipse the Opposition
by clogwog
Solar Shades Eclipse the Opposition
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Q&A: what are the three types of solar eclipses?
by quapan
Question by Isuck,Usuck,Weallsuck: what are the three types of solar eclipses?
Best answer:
Answer by davidbgreensmithtotal - in which the moon fully hides the sun.
partial - in which the moon obscures part of the sun
annular - this is where the moon is at the right distance that its disk appears slightly smaller than the Sun's so you get a black circle with a ring of fire.
en.wikipedia.org has some piccies.
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tiny.cc tiny.cc There are four types of solar eclipses: A total eclipse occurs when the Sun is completely obscured by the Moon. The intensely bright disk of the Sun is replaced by the dark silhouette of the Moon, and the much fainter corona is visible. During any one eclipse, totality is visible only from at most a narrow track on the surface of the Earth. An annular eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are exactly in line, but the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. Hence the Sun appears as a very bright ring, or annulus, surrounding the outline of the Moon. A hybrid eclipse is intermediate between a total and annular eclipse. At some points on the surface of the Earth it is visible as a total eclipse, whereas at others it is annular. Hybrid eclipses are rather rare. A partial eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are not exactly in line, and the Moon only partially obscures the Sun. This phenomenon can usually be seen from a large part of the Earth outside of the track of an annular or total eclipse. However, some eclipses can only be seen as a partial eclipse, because the umbra never intersects the Earth's surface. The match between the apparent sizes of the Sun and Moon during a total eclipse is a coincidence. The Sun's distance from the Earth is about 400 times the Moon's distance, and the Sun's diameter is about 400 times the Moon's diameter. Because these ratios are approximately the same, the sizes of the Sun and the Moon as seen from Earth ...
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