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[OT][Geek] Transit of Venus
Just reminding the geeks out there that the transit of Venus is tomorrow
(the 8th of June) No-one alive has seen one, because the last one happened in 1882! Its how Australia got discovered by Captain Cook in 1770 - he was trying to calculate the distance between teh earth and the sun by timing the 1769 transit in the Pacific and sorta stumbled across Aussieland a bit later. Yowie |
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Yeah, I remember reading about that. Seems he lost it about a week later
and it hasn't been seen since. :-) Yowie wrote: Just reminding the geeks out there that the transit of Venus is tomorrow (the 8th of June) No-one alive has seen one, because the last one happened in 1882! Its how Australia got discovered by Captain Cook in 1770 - he was trying to calculate the distance between teh earth and the sun by timing the 1769 transit in the Pacific and sorta stumbled across Aussieland a bit later. Yowie -- "No, I could sleep, but I must not; death is too near; he must not steal up on me. These fifteen years I have been making ready for him; I will meet him awake." Maria Theresa When Clinton lied, no one died. |
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Yeah, I remember reading about that. Seems he lost it about a week later
and it hasn't been seen since. :-) Yowie wrote: Just reminding the geeks out there that the transit of Venus is tomorrow (the 8th of June) No-one alive has seen one, because the last one happened in 1882! Its how Australia got discovered by Captain Cook in 1770 - he was trying to calculate the distance between teh earth and the sun by timing the 1769 transit in the Pacific and sorta stumbled across Aussieland a bit later. Yowie -- "No, I could sleep, but I must not; death is too near; he must not steal up on me. These fifteen years I have been making ready for him; I will meet him awake." Maria Theresa When Clinton lied, no one died. |
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Yeah, I remember reading about that. Seems he lost it about a week later
and it hasn't been seen since. :-) Yowie wrote: Just reminding the geeks out there that the transit of Venus is tomorrow (the 8th of June) No-one alive has seen one, because the last one happened in 1882! Its how Australia got discovered by Captain Cook in 1770 - he was trying to calculate the distance between teh earth and the sun by timing the 1769 transit in the Pacific and sorta stumbled across Aussieland a bit later. Yowie -- "No, I could sleep, but I must not; death is too near; he must not steal up on me. These fifteen years I have been making ready for him; I will meet him awake." Maria Theresa When Clinton lied, no one died. |
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Yowie wrote:
No-one alive has seen one, because the last one happened in 1882! Speaking of seeing one, what does it look like? Is there anything interesting about it, other than its rarity? Joyce |
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Yowie wrote:
No-one alive has seen one, because the last one happened in 1882! Speaking of seeing one, what does it look like? Is there anything interesting about it, other than its rarity? Joyce |
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Yowie wrote:
No-one alive has seen one, because the last one happened in 1882! Speaking of seeing one, what does it look like? Is there anything interesting about it, other than its rarity? Joyce |
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Speaking of seeing one, what does it look like? Is there anything
interesting about it, other than its rarity? Joyce What you see - and you should *never* but *never* look directly at the sun or you *will* blind yourself, painfully and possibly permanently, is a small dark circle traversing the face of the sun. For those in the UK, tomorrow morning, it's being shown on BBC during the Breakfast programme with Adam Hart-Davis reporting from the Greenwich Observatory. Also see http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/m...tofvenus.shtml Cheers, helen s --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove fame & fortune **$om $ --Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off-- |
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Speaking of seeing one, what does it look like? Is there anything
interesting about it, other than its rarity? Joyce What you see - and you should *never* but *never* look directly at the sun or you *will* blind yourself, painfully and possibly permanently, is a small dark circle traversing the face of the sun. For those in the UK, tomorrow morning, it's being shown on BBC during the Breakfast programme with Adam Hart-Davis reporting from the Greenwich Observatory. Also see http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/m...tofvenus.shtml Cheers, helen s --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove fame & fortune **$om $ --Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off-- |
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Speaking of seeing one, what does it look like? Is there anything
interesting about it, other than its rarity? Joyce What you see - and you should *never* but *never* look directly at the sun or you *will* blind yourself, painfully and possibly permanently, is a small dark circle traversing the face of the sun. For those in the UK, tomorrow morning, it's being shown on BBC during the Breakfast programme with Adam Hart-Davis reporting from the Greenwich Observatory. Also see http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/m...tofvenus.shtml Cheers, helen s --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove fame & fortune **$om $ --Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off-- |
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