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Article: Transit of Venus over Sun on Tuesday.

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June 2, 2004
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Kolkata, Jun 2 (PTI) In one of the rarest celestial events, transit of Venus over the disc of the Sun is poised to take place after a gap of 122 years on June eight, and it will be visible from all over India.

Positional Astronomy Centre Director B K Mondal said on Wednesday that the last such transit of Venus occurred on December six, 1882, while the next such phenomenon would take place on June six, 2012.

The phenomenon of this transit's contact stage-1 (Ingress) will begin at 10.43 am (IST) and follow interior contacts after 11 am. The culminating stage-VI of ...

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