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PortugalTrânsito Solar de Vénus 2012
Venus Solar Transit 2012
Date of Issue : 27 June 2012
The transits of Venus are very rare astronomical phenomena. When the Sun, Venus and Earth are in a near-perfect alignment we can see, with the appropriate instruments, a small black disk – the silhouette of Venus – crossing the bright disk of the Sun. The transits of Venus occur in pairs in eight year intervals. In turn, each of these pairs occurs, alternately, every 105.5 and 121.5 years. The last transit of Venus occurred on the morning of June 8th, 2004 and was fully visible in mainland Portugal (only its beginning was not observed in the Azores and Madeira), for more than six hours.
It’s just that the next Venus transit will only be seen from the Earth on December 11th, 2117.
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ReplyDeleteThis is Linda Alba.I represent a group of eclipse chasers who travel different part of the world to watch the eclipse. We also send request to various postal departments to issue stamps and philatelic materials related to astronomy and specifically solar eclipse .Various countries issue commemorative stamps to commemorate astronomical event like solar eclipse .On 3rd November 2013 Total solar eclipse will be visible from various countries of Africa.It will be a huge astronomical event for those countries.We are asking our friends in philately as well as astronomy community to request postal department of these countries to issue a stamp commemorating the eclipse of 3rd November 2013.
If it is not a tall task then please send a mail to
Gabon postal service: servicephilatelique@lapostedugabon.org
Congo postal service :congo.poste@laposte.net
Uganda postal service:stamps@ugapost.co.ug
And request Ethiopian postal service through their face book page:
http://www.facebook.com/EthiopianPostalServiceEnterprise
Please ask your friends to do so.
Please do it within next few days because these countries
will finalize 2013 stamp issue program soon.
I shall be grateful if you keep my request.And I apologies for bothering you.
Lastly I want to assure you that I HAVE NO PERSONAL MOTIVE BEHIND THIS REQUEST.
hope you do needful.
Keep in touch
Linda