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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4460. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Solar System, Solar System Models And Concepts

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The passage of a celestial body across the disk of a much larger one. The term is applied most commonly to passages of Mercury and Venus across the face of the Sun. Such transits were first reliably predicted by Johannes Kepler, in his Rudolphine Tables of planetary motion. From these predictions Pierre Gassendi became the first to observe a transit of Mercury, in 1631; eight years later Jeremiah...

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