The transit of Venus

Colin Devroe — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:34:12 +0000

A rather rare celestial phenomenon is about to happen. To describe just how rare this event is I’ll let Wikipedia explain.

Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena. They occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years.

A transit of Venus took place on 8 June 2004 and the next will be on 6 June 2012. The previous pair of transits were in December 1874 and December 1882. After 2012, the next transits of Venus will be in December 2117 and December 2125.

Suffice to say you’ll be alive for the next transit – in June – but you may not be alive for the next one.

I know where I’ll be in June. Watching Venus move across the Sun.

For more information take a look at TransitOfVenus.org

Jupiter, Venus, and Earth’s Moon are BFFs

Colin Devroe — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:21:47 +0000

I was able to write a guest post on Waking Ideas, a site run by two of my friends Daniel Nicolas and Jake Dahn. I thought it’d be fun to write about the recent event in our Solar System where Jupiter, Venus, and our Earth’s Moon had a little party.

Source: Jupiter, Venus, and Earth’s Moon are BFFs.

cdevroe.com » venus

The transit of Venus

Jupiter, Venus, and Earth’s Moon are BFFs