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Mercury (Planet): Venus Transit
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The Mercury Transit of May 7 is ... a kind of "general rehearsal" to the even rarer Venus Transit event on June 8, 2004. The last such event took place in 1884, so that no living person has ever seen one. The above mentioned organisations are also preparing for a major public event on that occasion. Provisional information is already available at the VT-2004 website.
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On May 7, 2003 the planet Mercury transited across the face of the Sun. This transit was seen by the 3 GONG telescopes (in Learmonth, Australia; Udaipur, India; and El Teide, the Canary Islands, Spain) that were facing towards the sun during the hours of the transit.
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The early morning of Wednesday, May 7, 2003, will see a transit of Mercury. The only part of the United States from which the transit will be visible is the northeast. In Boston, the transit will end at 6:34 a.m., about an hour after sunrise, with the sun only 10 degrees above the eastern horizon.
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