Transit of Mercury
Published on 21 May 2010 at 00:00.
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Friday 21st May 2010
Transit of Mercury
Occasionally, Mercury can seen acrossing the Sun known as “Transit of Mercury” (movie) – the last time, it was happened on 7th November 2003, before that it was 15th November 1999 but it was not visible from the United Kingdom, back to 10th November 1973 for the last Mercury transit visible from these parts. (I was five years old, no-body told me! )
Looking forward to the next transit was in November 2006 but again – we were not right place at the right time, then we have to wait for next 13 years since 2006 until May 2016 to see our next Transit of Mercury from the United Kingdom.
Transits of Mercury can happen in May or November. November transits occur at intervals of 7, 13, or 33 years ; May transits only occur at intervals of 13 or 33 years. The last three transits occurred in 1999, 2003 and 2006 - the next one will be in 2016, but not this year! – you can wait five more years!
In 2003, I had seen the “Transit of Mercury”, where I was with Milton Keynes Deaf Astronomical Society with other members.
(See the VideoClip).
