Transit of Venus on 5-6 June 2012
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28 Feb 2012 - 18 Jan 2016
If you miss this transit of Venus, you'll have to wait more than 100 years for the next one. The entire transit (all four contacts) is visible from northwestern North America, Hawaii, the western Pacific, northern Asia, Japan, Korea, eastern China, Philippines, eastern Australia, and New Zealand. See attached map. Transits of Venus are historically important events. They are especially important for the South Pacific as James Cook's main reason for undertaking the voyage on which he charted New Zealand and Australia's east coast was to observe the 1769 transit from the island of Tahiti. By observing a transit, astronomers could for the first time calculate the distance from the Earth to the Sun with some accuracy.
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