2012 transit of Venus
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2012 transit of Venus
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The 2012 transit of Venus, when the planet Venus appeared as a small, dark spot passing across the face of the Sun, began at 22:09 UTC on 5 June 2012, and finished at 04:49 UTC on 6 June. Depending on the position of the observer, the exact times varied by up to ±7 minutes. Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable celestial phenomena and occur in pairs. Consecutive transits per pair are spaced 8 years apart, and consecutive pairs occur more than a century apart: The previous transit
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Transit of Venus across the Sun visible from Earth on 5–6 June 2012
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_transit_of_Venus
date created:
2004-06-09T14:04:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T18:11:47Z
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