Re: Amazing interest

From: Paul Schlyter (pausch_at_saaf.se)
Date: 06/10/04 

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:45:09 GMT

In article <zsUxc.5002$H65.1953@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>,
David Nakamoto <res07oeg@verizon.net> wrote:
>And . . .
>
>Just because something is rare does it have automatic interest for everyone,
>even those interested in the general subject matter. If you were, and went
>to the effort to see it, good for you. I was sincerely not, but I don't see
>the need to put me down for my decision.
>
>--
> Sincerely,
> --- Dave

Actually, if you don't travel to see it, a Venus transit will be more
common than a total solar eclipse, since from a fixed point on the
Earth's surface on the average you'll see one Venus transit about every
100 years but only one total solar eclipse every 400 years.

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>"Paul Lawler" <stargazer@kilolaniDOT.net> wrote in message
>news:8kPxc.26$Wr.1@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>> "David Nakamoto" <res07oeg@verizon.net> wrote in message
>> news:gYMxc.1223$TR1.37@nwrddc01.gnilink.net...
>> >
>> > Obviously you were somewhere in the transit viewing region. I was not,
>> and
>> > not willing to spend money on something when I can view the event from
>the
>> > west coast for nothing in 2012, and preceeded by either a deep partial
>> from
>> > LA or an annular eclipse further north 16 days earlier. I know Venus is
>> > significantly larger than Mercury, whose transit I saw a few years back,
>> but
>> > it's not like a total solar eclipse. Yes, there's the intellectual
>angle
>> of
>> > it being over 120 years since the last one, but that didn't make much
>> > difference with me and a lot of people on the west coast.
>>
>> You are correct... it's not like a total solar eclipse. It's a much more
>> rare phenomena than a total solar eclipse.
>>
>>
>
> 

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