Transit of Mercury, 2003 May 7

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Apr 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003jbaa..113...69m&link_type=abstract

Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.113, no.2, p.69

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Mercury transit of May 7 will be the first to be visible from Great Britain since 1973 November 10. An earlier letter to the Journal gives the precise times and the track across the Sun, but throughout the UK the transit will commence around 05.11 UT and end at about 10.33 UT. Mercury transits happen in May and November in conjunction with the nodes of the planet's orbit (see also the paper by R. L. Stratford in the current Journal). There are twice as many November transits, when Mercury is close to perihelion. The less frequent May events find the planet at aphelion. In May therefore, Mercury will appear slightly larger against the Sun than it can do during a November transit.

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