TRACE observations of the 15 November 1999 transit of Mercury and the Black Drop effect: Considerations for the 2004 transit of Venus

Icarus

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 249-256

  Schneider, Glenn ^a   Pasachoff, Jay M ^b   Golub, Leon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Mercury; Venus

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842854607     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.11.020     Document Type: Article

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