• JimVanDeventerEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

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

    • A_AEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • JimVanDeventerEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

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

    • Soulg@ani.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 months 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.