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The Final Venus Transit of the 21st Century

By Malinda Wijeratne
A photograph of Venus transiting the Sun
The final transit of Venus in 21st century took place on 5th and 6th of June 2012. The transit lasted for 6 hours and 30 minutes. Transit of Venus is considered a rarest predictable phenomenon. Venus transits occur in pairs separated by 8 years of time and each pair is separated by more than a century. The first transit of this century took place in year 2004 on 8th of June.



The entire transit was visible from Pacific Ocean, part of Northwestern Coast of North America, Northeastern Asia, Japan, Philippines, New Zealand, and Eastern Australia. Many online video streams of the events covered the live event. As for the official stream of NASA had been viewed over 2 million times. (Visit here)
 

 
Transit in 2012 provided research opportunities for Astrologists to adopt new detection methods of exoplanets(planets outside the solar system). Visit the 2012 Venus Transit Wikipedia article for detailed info.

The next pair of transits will take place in 2117 and 2125 years respectively.

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