• astronomy, planetary transits and occultations occur when a planet passes in front of another object, as seen by an observer. The occulted object may...
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    size Lunar occultation of Venus Occultations, transits, and eclipses Planetary transits and occultations Radio occultation Solar eclipse Syzygy (astronomy)...
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    one. In the combined case where the smaller body regularly transits the larger, an occultation is also termed a secondary eclipse. An eclipse occurs when...
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  • "109P/Swift-Tuttle Orbit". Minor Planet Center. "Occultation – Mutual planetary transits and occultations – Encyclopedia II". Archived from the original...
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  • planet eclipses/transits its host star it will block a portion of the light from the star. If the planet transits in-between the star and the observer the...
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    occur on November 13, 2032. A typical transit lasts several hours. Mercury transits are much more frequent than transits of Venus, with about 13 or 14 per...
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  • Ring system (redirect from Planetary rings)
    planets (Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune) also have ring systems. Ring systems around minor planets have been discovered via occultations, as well. There are also...
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    CoRoT (French: Convection, Rotation et Transits planétaires; English: Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits) was a space telescope mission which operated...
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    a transit, Venus can be seen as a small black circle moving across the face of the Sun. Transits of Venus reoccur periodically. A pair of transits takes...
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    solar eclipse. Occultations in which the larger body is neither the Sun nor the Moon are very rare. More frequent, however, is an occultation of a planet...
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    Telescope has been used to detect transits of extrasolar planets, as well as occultations of the planets by their host star and phase curves. The Gaia mission...
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    Eclipse (redirect from Deep occultation)
    2007). "Planetary Transits Across the Sun". NASA. Archived from the original on March 11, 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-11. "When will the next transits of Mercury...
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    N. R. (2012). "Planetary Construction Zones in Occultation: Discovery of an Extrasolar Ring System Transiting a Young Sun-Like Star and Future Prospects...
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    on this string of three occultations, scientists were able to trace out the object's shape. Results of the 2017 occultation campaign Pre-flyby conceptual...
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    astrophotography, which allows pre-processing and processing of images from any type of camera (CCD, planetary camera, webcam etc.). The images must be converted...
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    the transits of Venus and Mercury by 13th-century Maragha astronomer Qotb al-Din Shirazi, though this cannot be true as there were no Venus transits in...
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  • The occult is a category of supernatural beliefs and practices, encompassing such phenomena as those involving mysticism, spirituality, and magic in terms...
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    Kepler-78 (category Planetary transit variables)
    astronomiques de Strasbourg. Sanchis-Ojeda, Roberto; et al. (2013). "Transits and Occultations of an Earth-sized Planet in an 8.5 hr Orbit". The Astrophysical...
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    CHEOPS (category Science and technology in Switzerland)
    and was able to observe individual occultations for the first time. A study searching for transits around 6 white dwarfs did not detect any transits and...
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    the possibility of planetary transits across the face of the Sun in his work Planetary Hypotheses. He suggested that no transits had been observed either...
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  • Photometry and astrometry of asteroids. Stellar occultations by planets, moons and asteroids. Photometry of the transits of extra-solar planets and variable...
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    Light curve (category Planetary science)
    gravitational lenses, but allows the detection and analysis of otherwise-invisible stellar and planetary mass objects. The properties of these objects...
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    periodically occulted Haumea from 2009 to 2011. Observation of such transits would provide precise information on the size and shape of Haumea and its moons...
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    2 Pallas (category Objects observed by stellar occultation)
    collisions with each other. Pallas, Vesta and Ceres appear to be the only intact bodies from this early stage of planetary formation to survive within the orbit...
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    3 Juno (category Objects observed by stellar occultation)
    for which an occultation was observed. It passed in front of a dim star (SAO 112328) on 19 February 1958. Since then, several occultations by Juno have...
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    V1400 Centauri (category Hypothetical planetary systems)
    exoplanet or brown dwarf discovered with a ring system by the transit method. A sequence of occultations (eclipses) of the star occurred over a 56-day period in...
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    Exomoon (category Planetary satellite systems)
    planet that transits its star then the moon will also transit the star and this bunching up at the edges may be detectable in the transit light curves...
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    "Transits and Occultations | Total Solar Eclipse 2017". "In Depth | Saturn". Brufau, Rainer. (2021). Triple shadow phenomena on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus...
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    every 42 years, when Uranus has an equinox and its equatorial plane intersects the Earth, mutual occultations of Uranus's moons become possible. A number...
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    139 Juewa (category Objects observed by stellar occultation)
    ruìhuá.) Since 1988 there have been 8 reported stellar occultations by Juewa. From the occultation on 31 August 2013 the best fit ellipse measures 148.3±4...
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