The Strangeness of Venus Transits
I’ve been doing a bit of research on the various strange aspects of Venus.
One of the areas that I’ve been reading up on is the Venus Transits. From a pure astronomy view, the transits of Venus are an interesting phenomenon in the first place. A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, obscuring a small portion of the Sun’s disk.
But I’m also interested in other strange possibilities and theories that are associated with the transit of Venus.
One of the lines of research that I’m taking is trying to match up the transit dates with significant, odd or interesting historical events.
The first problem that I encountered though was getting the dates right.
In my copy of The Encylopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, they display a chart of Venus Transits from 1518 to 2012. It wasn’t until I started researching online that I discovered that their transit dates for 1518 and 1526 were way off (by weeks), and 1769 was off by 2 days. I found that all very odd considering this particular edition was published in the early 1900’s and should have had access to the correct dates.
These days, the transits happen in June and December, whilst before 1631, the transits occurred in May and November.
Now, although some Venus Transit charts extend well past 2012, the first couple of charts I looked at ended at 2012. And that’s a year that I’m kind of interested in as there is all sorts of theories and prophecies associated with 2012.
So, after I’ve had a better look at past events that might be linked to previous Venus transits, I’ll be looking at possible 2012 connections and ideas. That should provide interesting reading in any event. Even just reading briefly about it at Wikipedia made my head spin with info overload.
Sources and Related Links:
- About the image: Computer Simulated Global View of Venus (NASA/JPL)
- Transits of Venus - Six Millennium Catalog
- Transit of Venus
- Wikipedia: Transit of Venus
