OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
"Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena. They occur in a pattern that generally repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years. The periodicity is a reflection of the fact that the orbital periods of Earth and Venus are close to 8:13 and 243:395 commensurabilities." - Wikipedia
a(n) is approximately 365.25 * A171467(n+46). - Charles R Greathouse IV, Jan 24 2013
REFERENCES
Jean Meeus, Transits, Willmann-Bell, 1989.
Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, Second Ed., 1999.
LINKS
Fred Espenak, The Ultimate Resource for Eclipse Photography, 2001.
NASA Science, Saturn's Transit of Venus on Dec. 21, 2012
NASA Eclipse Web Site, Planetary Transits Across the Sun
NASA Eclipse Web Site, Eclipses and Transits of 2012
NASA Eclipse Web Site, 2004 and 2012 Transits of Venus
NASA Eclipse Web Site, Six Millennium Catalog of Venus Transits: 2000 BCE to 4000 CE
NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center, Calendars, by L. E. Doggett
The United States Naval Observatory (USNO), Astronomical Applications Department, Julian Date Converter
Wikipedia, 2012 transit of Venus
EXAMPLE
05:19 07 Dec 1631 = 2317110.721528
18:25 04 Dec 1639 = 2320030.267361
05:19 06 Jun 1761 = 2364408.721528
22:25 03 Jun 1769 = 2367328.434028
04:05 09 Dec 1874 = 2405866.670139
17:06 06 Dec 1882 = 2408786.212500
08:19 08 Jun 2004 = 2453164.846528
01:28 06 Jun 2012 = 2456084.561111
02:48 11 Dec 2117 = 2458098.616667
16:01 08 Dec 2125 = 2497542.167361
11:30 11 Jun 2247 = 2541920.979167
04:36 09 Jun 2255 = 2544840.691667
01:40 13 Dec 2360 = 2583378.569444
14:43 10 Dec 2368 = 2586298.113194
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Fred Espenak (fred.espenak-1(AT)nasa.gov) or (info01(AT)MrEclipse.com) and Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 23 2013
STATUS
approved