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  2. Transit of Venus - Wikipedia

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    Visible in entirety in South America and the eastern U.S. Partly visible in Western U.S., Europe, Africa, and Oceania. 11 June 2247: 08:42: 11:33: 14:25 Visible in entirety in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Partly visible in East Asia and Indonesia, and in North and South America. 9 June 2255: 01:08: 04:38: 08:08

  3. Orbit of Venus - Wikipedia

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    Representation of Venus (yellow) and Earth (blue) circling around the Sun. Venus and its rotation in respect to its revolution. Venus has an orbit with a semi-major axis of 0.723 au (108,200,000 km; 67,200,000 mi), and an eccentricity of 0.007. [1] [2] The low eccentricity and comparatively small size of its orbit give Venus the least range in ...

  4. 2004 transit of Venus - Wikipedia

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    A photograph taken at 15:39 Hong Kong time (07:39 UTC) from Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong. A projection of the 2004 Transit of Venus as seen from Mumbai, India at 14:57:50 IST (09:27:50 UTC ) clicked using a Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD73 camera by Dhaval Mahidharia.

  5. Venus - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, Venus transits above Earth only occur when an inferior conjunction takes place during some days of June or December, the time where the orbits of Venus and Earth cross a straight line with the Sun. [185] This results in Venus transiting above Earth in a sequence of currently 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and 121.5 years, forming ...

  6. Observations and explorations of Venus - Wikipedia

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    The radar observations also allowed astronomers to determine that the rotation period of Venus was 243.1 days, and that its axis of rotation was almost perpendicular to its orbital plane. It was also established that the radius of the planet was 6,052 kilometres (3,761 mi), some 70 kilometres (43 mi) less than the best previous figure obtained ...

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  8. Outline of Venus - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Venus: . Venus – second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It has the longest rotation period (243 days) of any planet in the Solar System and rotates in the opposite direction to most other planets.

  9. See the full wolf moon overtake Mars in the night sky and ...

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    February 12: Snow moon. March 14: Worm moon. April 12: Pink moon. May 12: Flower moon. June 11: Strawberry moon. July 10: Buck moon. August 9: Sturgeon moon