The Transit of Venus
Means which have been adopted for ascertaining the velocity of light and the sun's distance, with especial reference to the forthcoming transit of Venus over the sun's disc, in 1874 and 1882
... This corresponds with a solar distance of 95,^360,000 statue miles ; and should the forthcoming transit of Venus prove unfavorable, any reduction of the possible error in the sun's paral[r] ...
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The transit of Venus 1874 With special reference to the importance of determining the true distance of the sun in connection with meteorology
... The parallax of Venus is known to be almost four times as great as the solar parallax, which causes a very sensible difference between the times that Venus will be seen to pass over the [r] ...
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Additional and corrected elements for the transit of Venus, December 9th, 1874 : with notes for reducing the effects of irradiation, and errors from observations made in the plane of the meridian, etc, etc
... · Procter whose beautiful sun-views of the earth, drawn to illustrate the seasons, shew changes similar to those of sun-spot curves, irrespective of the sun's hemisphere remarks:" During[r] ...
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Gravitational Lensing of Spiral Vortex Solar Radiation by Venus
... the Venus transit on June 6, 2012 were performed using two similar torsinds—a special kind of ultralight torsion balances on a silk ...track Venus-Earth, gave a value of 1990 km/s which coincided ...
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Kepler-1649b: an exo-Venus in the solar neighborhood
... Utilizing the method described in Section 3.1 of Rappaport et al. ( 2014 ) , we modeled Kepler-1649 and six stars near the target that had initial position and brightness values based on either the KIC or two different ...
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On the search for transits of the planets orbiting Gliese 876
... planetary transit, the occulting disk of the planet passes over portions of the stellar disk containing a varying component of line-of-sight velocity arising from stellar rotation; this phenomenon produces an ...
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Magnet tracking allows assessment of regional gastrointestinal transit times in children
... MTS-1 recordings were reviewed and analyzed indepen- dently by two observers. Gastric emptying was defined as an abrupt shift from the highly characteristic contraction frequency of three per minute in the stomach to a ...
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Transit Search
... This thesis presents several algorithms leading up to the development of Transit Search. We first examine Region Weighted A* which assigns to every region a set of weights to guide the search using a modified ...
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An uppermost haze layer above 100 km found over Venus by the SOIR instrument onboard Venus Express
... The Solar Occultation in the InfraRed (SOIR) instrument onboard Venus Express was designed to measure the Venu‑ sian atmospheric transmission at high altitudes (65–220 km) in the infrared range (2.2–4.3 μm) with a ...
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Transit Demand Estimation And Crowding Prediction Based On Real-Time Transit Data
... public transit data and sending them to a server or cloud-based system. Transit authorities can apply this approach to public transport systems and such data can be used for planning where the ...
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Lightning detection on Venus: a critical review
... A remark on the flash duration is in order. Krasnopolsky’s (1979) detections—see earlier—were about 250 ms long, not typical of terrestrial flashes (as had been claimed). The Hansell et al. (1995) data ana- lysis ...
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What the alligator didn't know: natural selection and love in our mutual friend
... Mr Venus – or as he might also be known, ‘Mr Love’. Venus is ‘lowered’ by the heart, and cast down by Pleasant’s rejection of him; but he is redeemed by love ...
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<p>The First Report of Triple Advanced Synchronous Cancer: Bladder Transitional Cell Carcinoma and Clinically Silent Adenocarcinoma of Prostate and Colon</p>
... The First Report of Triple Advanced Synchronous Cancer: Bladder Transitional Cell Carcinoma and Clinically Silent Adenocarcinoma of Prostate and Colon.. This article was published in the[r] ...
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The relevance of transit-oriented development for transit station community in Malaysia
... a transit station area is still yet to be successfully implemented, in Malaysian context ...the transit station where most of the area consist of high land ...
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Network meta-analysis of (individual patient) time to event data alongside (aggregate) count data
... and VenUS IV, hereby denominated studies 1 and 2) had full IPD data available (841 participants) which included time to healing or censoring for each participant, together with other individual-level ...
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planets in a bottle exemplar.docx
... is Venus. Venus has a very acidic and hot environment which means that the ingredients being put into the bottle were different than other ...The Venus bottle proved that life was not sustainable and ...
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Stabilization of Venus’ climate by a chemical albedo feedback
... requires that there be pyrite and magnetite on the surface of Venus. However, neither the existence nor the non-existence of pyrite and magnetite is supported by the observations, since no observation was ...
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A study of large volcanoes and their geological settings on Venus
... Two interpretations o f the global stratigraphy o f Venus were discussed in Chapter 2. The Global Stratigraphie M odel o f B asilevsky and Head (2000) suggests that landforms on Venus formed during specific ...
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Specular Reflections: John Brett and the Mirror of Venus
... he account of Brett’s paper in the Astronomical Register di ff ers slightly from that published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that I quoted as the epigraph at the start of this article. he most ...
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Perceptions of divinity : the changing characters of Roman Venus.
... to Venus (and the goddesses who influenced her) in literature and inscriptions, together with images on monuments, coins and other artefacts, in order to gain the widest view of perceptions at ...of Venus ...
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