Lancashire Lantern: Lancashire Pioneers

Part of the Lancashire Lantern network, the Pioneers gives details of people who were famous local people in science, technology and innovation. These pioneers were either born in Lancashire or their endeavours made a significant contribution to the development of the County.

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Transits of Venus are very rare events, but when they do occur they come in pairs 8 years apart.

The last pair of transits were in 1874 and 1882. The last one was in 2004 and the next will be on Jun 5-6 2012. You can get information on the Transit by looking at the websites below - remember to never look directly at the Sun when observing the transit.

Other useful web-sites for the transit of venus :

http://www.venus-transit.de/TransitMotion/ 

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2769041 

http://www.transitofvenus.org/ 

http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/venus/transit.html 

http://arpc65.arm.ac.uk/venustransit

 

 

 

 

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