Hope it clears up for the transit of Venus this evening since I probably won’t live to 152 to see the next one. In the meantime, I like reading about rare things that have happened before and will happen again but in outrageous time scales. How about this… someone, somewhere might see this in the year 69163 (assuming we don’t destroy the planet and become extinct first):<\/p>\n
The simultaneous occurrence of a transit of Mercury and a transit of Venus does occur, but extremely infrequently. Such an event last occurred on 22 September 373,173 BC and will next occur on 26 July 69,163, and again on 29 March 224,508. The simultaneous occurrence of a solar eclipse and a transit of Venus is currently possible, but very rare. The next solar eclipse occurring during a transit of Venus will be on 5 April 15,232. The last time a solar eclipse occurred during a transit of Venus was on 1 November 15,607 BC. It could be noticed that the day after the Venerean transit of 3 June 1769 there was a total solar eclipse, which was visible in Northern America, Europe and Northern Asia.<\/p>\n