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Systematic Chaos

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1. According to my brief time on teh Google, the Moon occults Venus...

Reply to liberaltrucker (Original post)

Mon Mar 26, 2012, 09:02 PM

Mar 2012

...once or twice every decade.

Much more rare is an instance of Venus transiting across the disk of the Sun. There is going to be one this summer, and not another one until next century.

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Wow! The Moon is VERY close to Venus. [View all] liberaltrucker Mar 2012 OP

According to my brief time on teh Google, the Moon occults Venus... Systematic Chaos Mar 2012 #1

Cool! liberaltrucker Mar 2012 #2

Can one see that? Bertha Venation Mar 2012 #4

You would view it same way as a solar eclipse. Systematic Chaos Mar 2012 #7

cool -- thanks Bertha Venation Mar 2012 #8

They like a quickie every few hundred years. HopeHoops Mar 2012 #3

I noticed that last night. Had no idea the small one was Venus though n/t RZM Mar 2012 #5

I got to see it last night despite the clouds pokerfan Mar 2012 #6