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Venus Transit is historically significant because you can derive the solar system's size from precision timing of the event. — PolitiTweet.org

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In the era of the Telescope, there's been 258 Total Solar Eclipses but only eight Venus Transits, including today's. — PolitiTweet.org

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Captain Cook saw the June 3, 1769 Venus Transit from South Pacific, also mapping islands there for later British colonization — PolitiTweet.org

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