Transit of Venus! Sydney 2012 Contacts, Contracts and Parallax

Veritasium
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Veritasium
Resource Type
Classroom Material
Keywords
transit of venus venus venus transit 2012 June 6 June 5 Sydney Sydney observatory cook tahiti parallax astronomical unit AU veritasium smarter every day
Subjects
Science
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Transit of Venus! Sydney 2012 Contacts, Contracts and Parallax

Smarter Every Day Collaboration video: http://youtu.be/riwc3UgPaHw

The Veritasium treatment of the final transit of Venus this century. The weather behaved for some key moments allowing me to observe Venus passing across the disk of the sun. The transit of Venus is steeped in historical significance. Observations of the transit in 1769 led to the first really accurate calculation of the Earth-Sun distance (or one astronomical unit AU). Since Cook was in Tahiti he then mapped the East coast of Australia and parts of New Zealand.
Author
Dr. Derek Muller
Publisher
Veritasium

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