What we couldn't see on the West Coast. The Crossing of Venus.
Venus makes two passes across the sun, eight years apart, every 122 years; the next one will be in 2012. As the sun is 30 times bigger, the planet is barely visible through special dark glasses.
(yeah, so you can't see the Venus Crossing Guard, an elderly person wearing a fluorescent vest, hold up the 8-sided stop sign to halt oncoming traffic during the time Venus skipped across the Sun's surface. We have it on good authority that the Venus Crossing Guard was well-supplied with ultra-high SPF sunblock.)
More from the Exploratorium. The next one is on June 6, 2012. But at what time? I guess I got 8 years to find out.
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