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6 June 2012 Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

The last transit of Venus this century

Venus crossed the face of the Sun for six hours and forty minutes, and will not do it again until December 2117.

Transits come in pairs eight years apart and then not for more than a century, because Venus's orbit is tilted and the alignment is fussy. Everyone alive who saw this one, or the 2004 pair with it, has seen the only ones of their lifetime.

Date
6 June 2012
Moon computed for
01:00 local time, UTC
Phase
Waning Gibbous
Illuminated
96%

Source: NASA transit of Venus catalogue (opens in a new tab)

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