{"id":6010,"date":"2016-05-06T19:08:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T01:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6010"},"modified":"2016-05-06T19:08:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T01:08:39","slug":"in-the-news-transit-of-mercury-9-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6010","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Transit of Mercury, 9 May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Transit of Mercury that occurred ten years ago, 9 November 2006 [Public domain, NASA]<\/p><\/div>On Monday 9 May 2016, people across the world, including Europe and North America, will be able to\u00a0witness the transit of Mercury<\/em>. The planet Mercury will be visible as a tiny black dot as Mercury passes between Earth and the sun.<\/p>\n

Use precautions—view through welder’s glass, as you would for a solar eclipse—if you plan to observe.<\/p>\n

Transits of Mercury occur roughly every ten years. On the other hand, transits of Venus<\/a> can be separated from each other by time spans of several years and also time spans of about a century.<\/p>\n

Mercury and Venus have transits. They are closer to the sun than is the Earth. The outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)\u00a0do not have transits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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