Earthlings will witness a special kind of eclipse, the transit of venus across sun on 8th June 2004. The second transit will be on 6th June 2012
Photograph of the Transit of Venus on 1882 Dec 06.
Planetary transits are far more rare than eclipses of the Sun by the Moon. On the average, there are 13 transits of Mercury each century. In comparison, transits of Venus usually occur in pairs with eight years separating the two events. However, more than a century elapses between each transit pair.
The first transit ever observed was of the planet Mercury in 1631 by the French astronomer Gassendi. A transit of Venus occurred just one month later but Gassendi’s attempt to observe it failed because the transit was not visible from Europe. In 1639, Jerimiah Horrocks and William Crabtree became the first to witness a transit of Venus.
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Interesting information. It may interest you to see how venus looks these days… http://www.livejournal.com/~parag/41566.html