The transportation sector and government services declined slightly due to slack early-1990 transits through the Panama Canal, lower oil pipeline flowthrough, and Panama City's budget cuts.
These difficulties, as already stated, were known to exist; but there is a long interval between transits of Venus, or rather between every pair of such transits.
The following table will show how much was learned from the transits of Venus, and how much remained to be settled.
As was to be expected, these results agree well with the sun's rotation as found by the transits of sun spots in the lower latitudes where they make their appearance.
She receives double the solar heat that we do, but possessing an atmosphere perhaps threefold denser than ours, as reliably indicated by observations of transits of Venus, the intensity of the heat and its diffusion may be greatly modified.
No moon of Mercury is known to exist, although many times diligently searched for, especially during transits of the planet.
Observations were made of transits of Mercury and Venus, and refracting and reflecting telescopes were invented.
In the case of sea transits exceeding 300 nautical miles, the despatching country was required to pay to the administration which provided the service, the expenses of the transportation, not exceeding 6 fr.
The method of determining latitude by transits in the prime vertical has the disadvantage of being a somewhat slow process, and of requiring a very precise knowledge of the time, a disadvantage from which the zenith telescope is free.
An observer having his hand on a contact key in the same circuit can record in the same manner his observed times of transits of stars.
What is seen during transits of Venus over the sun's disk leads to more certain, but yet very puzzling, conclusions.
Twice in the twenty-four hours it transitsacross the meridian--once when going from east to west it passes above the pole, once when going from west to east below the pole.
A complete observation involves four such transits and sets of circle readings, two of altitude, and two of azimuth; for after one of altitude and one of azimuth the telescope is turned round, and a second observation is taken in each element.
The Transits of Venus; A Popular Account of Past and Coming Transits, from the first observed by Horrocks A.
Several ingenious methods have been proposed and employed by astronomers to discover the distances of the sun and planets, but nothing serves this purpose so well as the transits of Venus over the sun's disk.
Venus, as well as Mercury, is sometimes seen to transit the sun's disk, in form of a dark round spot; but these transits seldom happen.
Having regard to the circumstance that transits of Mercury and Venus only happen at intervals of many years, it is not worth while for the purposes of this work to devote any great amount of space to them.
More difficult of observation are the transits of the satellites and of their shadows.
All the governments, except our own, which observed the two transits of Venus on a large scale long ago completed the work of reduction, and published the observations in full.
They come in pairs, with an interval of eight years between thetransits of a pair.
But the relative value of these methods and of transits of Venus was a subject on which little light could be thrown; and the rarity of the latter phenomena naturally excited universal interest, both among the astronomers and among the public.
But if a transit does not happen after eight years, it will not happen at the same node, until an interval of two hundred and thirty-five years: but intermediate transits may occur at the other node.
The various accounts of the two transits abound with remarks like these, which indicate the existence of an atmosphere about Venus of nearly the density and extent of the earth's atmosphere.
Hence the transitsof Mercury take place in May and November, and those of Venus, in June and December.
Transits of Venus are events of very unfrequent occurrence.
At intervals of thirty-three years, transits of Mercury are exceedingly probable, because in that time Mercury makes almost exactly one hundred and thirty-seven revolutions.
Transits of Mercury occur more frequently than those of Venus.
The moon's apparent mean motion in longitude seems also to indicate slow periodic changes in the earth's rotation; but these are not confirmed by transits of Mercury, which ought also to indicate them.
Delisle is chiefly remembered as the author of a method for observing the transits of Venus and Mercury by instants of contacts.
It was through observation of theirtransits that it was discovered that light occupied time in passing through space.
Thus transits are rather rare, though they occur periodically in the case of both Venus and Mercury, and will be spoken of elsewhere.
But the earth is not always there at the same time, and it is because of this that transits occur only in periods of seven, thirteen, or forty-six years.
These transitsoccur at intervals of seven, thirteen, or forty-six years, according to the position of the earth.
The earth is near the two points where Mercury crosses the ecliptic about May 8th and November 9th, so that transits can occur only near these dates.
Transits can occur only when the earth and the planet are near the point where their orbits cross each other.
In every two hundred and forty-three years four transits take place.
We may hope that that Greenwich assistant found further employment; but we can hardly, as psychologists, regret that he timed his transits later than he should!
Now, in the transits which the later observer has given, he has found it necessary to correct for a considerable inequality between the first and second wires (See Phil.
These circumstances make it difficult to determine the distance of the sun from observations of transits of Venus with the accuracy which modern science requires.
The prediction of those transits by Kepler, some years before they occurred, was justly regarded at the time as a most remarkable achievement.
The transitsmay be all grouped together into pairs, the two transits of any single pair being separated by an interval of eight years.
Considering that the earth is overtaken by Venus once every nineteen months, it might seem that the transits of the planet should occur with corresponding frequency.
It will be useful to take a brief retrospect of the different transits of Venus of which there is any historical record.
This arrangement of the transits in pairs admits of a very simple explanation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
