Transit of mercury

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From: Paul Doherty (pauld@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 11:18:32 PDT 

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Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 11:18:32 -0700
From: Paul Doherty <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Transit of mercury

Wednesday May 7 there will be a transit of Mercury across the face of the sun.

The event will not be visible to observers in the western US, however there
will be a live webcast of the event.

The event happens between 0500 and 1000 Universal Time
which in Pacific Daylight time is between 10 PM Tuesday the 6'th and 3 AM
Wednesday the 7'th.

Watch it live on the web (see below)

see
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/transit03.html#webcast

additional information is available at

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/transit03.html

Which includes a movie taken by the SOHO spacecraft of Mercury approaching
the sun.

Next Year on June 8 the Exploratorium will webcast live coverage of the
transit of Venus, a much rarer event.

Enjoy

Paul Doherty

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