| Over a mere five occurrences these transits of Venus had shifted from events of astronomical importance to a sideshow with mere curiosity value. |
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| The first to been seen was in 1639, and the time between transits was later predicted by Edmond Halley. |
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| The story of the transits of Venus begins in 1627, just three years before the death of the German astronomer Johannes Kepler. |
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| Transits of Mercury are more common than transits of Venus, and occur every three to thirteen years. |
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| Saturn transits each sign in about 29.5 months and crosses three signs in about 7 and a half years, hence the reference to sadesati. |
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| He proposed using transits of Mercury to determine the distance of the Sun and therefore the scale of the solar system using Kepler's third law. |
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| The present link, which transits through the Panama Canal, includes port calls at Hong Kong, Shekou, Qingdao and Shanghai. |
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| The early transits were actually momentous occasions in the world of astronomy. |
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| After the white light transits the measurement cell, a fiber-optic cable collects it and relays it to a spectral distribution system. |
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| The circumstances of the transits of Venus repeat themselves with great exactness after a period of 243 years. |
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| During the year 994 al-Khujandi used the very large instrument to observe a series of meridian transits of the sun near the solstices. |
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| The transits of the Planet of Love happen in pairs, eight years apart every century. |
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| Any planet search that relies on transits must make allowance for the fact that transits, by their very nature, are rare events. |
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| Instead, they simply induce small local fluid transits about the surface of the mass of stored solids. |
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| The ribsome transits along the messenger RNA as the protein is built, releasing the deacylated tRNA through an exit site. |
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| Looking at progressions and transits to your natal chart we see Saturn, the planet of restriction, putting some limitations on you. |
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| In the nineteenth century, rare transits of Venus across the surface of the Sun were used to prove that Venus was enveloped in an atmosphere. |
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| The occultations and transits of Io, the Galilean moon closest to Jupiter, begin about every twenty-one hours and last just over two hours. |
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| If you want to drop a shot on the boilers, use the transits and an echo sounder to search about 50m out, just east of north-east from Maen Voes. |
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| Besides a couple of eclipses slated for May, sky watchers would witness transits of two planets over the disk of the Sun. |
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| Jump point transits were rough on the crews of small ships like frigates, corvettes, and pinnaces. |
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| I have often noted transits to Uranus in this house denote a time when guilty secrets and hidden vices are exposed. |
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| The next major figure in the history of transits of Venus was Edmond Halley, of comet fame. |
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| Put simply, transits are a map of the current planetary positions at any given time. |
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| Many Archetypal Astrologers feel that all major cosmic events, such as eclipses and transits, are actually interactive in the most personal sense. |
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| Most of the cocaine smuggled into the United States transits Mexico or the Caribbean. |
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| Unfortunately because the orbit of Venus is inclined to the earth's orbit by about three and a half degrees, these transits of Venus don't take place very often. |
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| Piscean transits do aggravate Libran indecision, so when you start weighing up a dozen different alternatives, set time limits on your decision-making. |
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| Indeed, between 1903 and 2008, only 113 distinct vessels sailed through the Northwest Passage, amounting to a total of 254 transits in that time. |
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| One will refer to the specific pages clarifying the calculation of the transits and in order to understand this periodicity. |
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| They are part of a delicately balanced teeter-totter, which can exist in one state or the other, but transits through the middle stage almost overnight. |
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| The yacht marinas could bring money to the public purse both from the fees charged for transits and from tourists because a marina is an attraction on its own right. |
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| A CD Rom including fac-simile of the texts of the voyages organized for the observation of the transits. |
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| Your efforts to know your horoscope through progressions and transits are mostly in vain. |
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| And there are the transits through UB, a veritable Bangkok of the steppes at least if your comparators are Kabul and Mogadishu. |
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| Pairs of transits occur roughly eight years apart, with either 105 or 125 years separating them from the next pair. |
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| Unfortunately, astronomers do not yet know if its orbit transits Gliese 581's disc, as viewed from Earth. |
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| As in past years, transits and gross registered tonnage for non-toll traffic are not included in this report. |
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| There shall be no specific network charge on individual transactions for declared transits of electricity. |
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| Pilots state that applicants are tested only for the vessel of which they are a crew member and for the transits that the vessel will make. |
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| This core network must be constructed irrespective of the existence of transits. |
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| One hundred and thirteen of these transits were made by Canadian Coast Guard vessels for proprietary use. |
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| The master would berth-unberth the tug-barge unit, and most crew members would stand watch during lock transits. |
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| Much of the cannabis resin transits Spain and the Netherlands before being shipped to other countries. |
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| The mate had completed three transits and berthed the ferry twice at the south terminal. |
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| Only a small proportion of truck traffic transits the National Capital Region on its way to another destination. |
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| Taking progressions and transits together, we can say with some confidence what areas of your life will be highlighted when, and how you may react to this. |
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| A pack of planets transits your impressionistic sector, where transcending the material or ordinary becomes the focus. |
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| When Saturn transits the sign of karka or cancer and again when it crosses scorpio or vrischik, the individual will experience the panoti or adhayia of Saturn. |
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| But as our comrade transits to join other frontline CODESRIA militants such as Claude Ake and Guy Mhone, we must, as a community, seize the moment to rededicate our commitment to Africa and humanity. |
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| At our very next practice, while we orbited him, he casually chatted about the transits of Jovian planets. |
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| Sometimes transits through other countries prove necessary. |
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| Dates for major transits are given for each zodiac sign? |
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| The companion was found thanks to its transits, the small dips in the star's brightness, that Corot detected every time when that object passed in front of its star. |
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| Passenger vessels are considered to be cargo vessels, and for transit and gross registered tonnage purposes, are included amongst the loaded or ballast transits of the cargo vessel category. |
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| The observation of the transits of Venus has been a major challenge for the astronomers of the past centuries: the goal was to measure the solar system and, from that, the universe. |
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| Thus, the long transits are likely due to the photoeccentric effect and our transit fits hint at an eccentric orbit. |
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| Applying weaker rules for exports or transits to third countries would harm the credibility of the Community in its attempts to strengthen international cooperation in the fight against falsified medicines. |
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| In the transiting system HD 209458, the times of the transits of the known giant planet are the 'ticks' of an orbital clock whose pace can be changed by the gravities of other unseen planets in the system. |
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| The use of renewable primary energies such as geotherm, biomass, solar and wind power, is to be subsidised over the long term and financed by means of a tax on electricity transits in the high-voltage network. |
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| Every ship shall provide at least 96 hours notice of arrival to the nearest Seaway station prior to all transits or in case of reinspection of the ship is required. |
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| With a transit speed of 20 knots, she has been specifically designed to minimize intercontinental transits and allow her efficient deployment in all deep water regions of the world. |
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| Grain movements also registered healthy gains, facilitated by the availability of vessels that had just completed upbound transits laden with cargoes destined for steel mills. |
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| A CD Rom providing the fac simile of the texts written on the voyages made during the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth centuries for the observation of the transits of Venus is now available. |
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| A cosmic idea thus transits across the borderline between the esoteric, etheric realms and the exoteric, gaseous realms to form the various phenomena of deep space that are recognisable to the orthodox scientists of today. |
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| In other cases, however, we noted that vessels made regular long-distance transits back to the base of operations to pick up or drop off navigational aids. |
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| The primary trafficking route through Kazakhstan to Russia and on to Western Europe transits Almaty, Karaganda, Semey, Novosibirsk, Barnaul, and Omsk. |
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| The ship's first call will be Ponta Delgada in the Azores on 23 January before she sails to the Caribbean, transits the Panama Canal and heads for Hawaii and Australia. |
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| One of the most difficult manufacturing issues to overcome was how to install power trains for both front and rear-wheel drive Transits on a common production line. |
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| Transits of Venus occur as regular as clockwork, following a simple cycle. |
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