Transit of Venus 2012 App Enables Cosmic Calculations Next Week
Friday, June 1, 2012 - 15:30
in Astronomy & Space
The transit of Venus across the sun occurs June 5 and 6. A smartphone app lets you recreate a centuries-old method to compute the size of the solar system.
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