Transit of Mercury Event

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Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:08 am

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Transit of Mercury Event

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A special feature in this year's Sun-Earth Day is the upcoming Transit of Mercury on November 8th, when the planet Mercury travels across the disc of the Sun! This is an exciting and unique event. We have some resources available for teachers on the Sun-Earth Day website http://sunearthday.nasa.gov and live webcast information at the following URL

http://nasadln.nmsu.edu/dln This will get you started and the link will be live on November 8th beginning at 1:30 ET

This is an additional article written for general audiences from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific written in English and Spanish at the URLs:

View the Spanish language version here: http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/69/mercurysp.html

View the English language version here: http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/69/mercury.html

We look forward to your participation!





Elaine Lewis

Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt MD


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