Black Drop

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4410.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4410. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Solar System, Solar System Models And Concepts

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An optical phenomenon observed at the beginning and end of transits of Venus across the Sun's disk in which the dark silhouette of Venus, having just wholly passed onto the Sun's disk at one limb, or being just about to make contact with the opposite limb, is seen to be `connected' to the limb by a narrow dark `bridge'. This bridge is the so-called black drop. It was probably first observed at th...

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