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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

How is the next transit of Venus not until 2117? That blows my socks’ mind. Seems like that should be happening very regularly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same reasons for any eclipses :
.1- plane of orbits (the one for Venus and the one for the Earth) do not exactly coincide and
.2- because distances between objects are much larger than objects, including size of the sun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

I believe you. Still seems wild that I will never see another one in my lifetime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It's probably more about how often it's visible in your part of the world than it happening at all if I had to guess.