Venus Definition and 115 Threads

I have a venus fly trap that i bought from the grocery store a year ago. His name is Jesus. He's grown tons since I've gotten him, (oh his name is Jesus by the way.) I took him to college with me, and he hasn't been very happy. When i first got here, i set him by the window, but the heater is...

Why is it difficult to measure the perihelion advance of the planet Venus? Please help me answer this question in details...Thank you~ :smile:

Why is it so hard to measure the perihelion advance of Venus?

Yup, me again, with yet another question i can't seem to find an answer to. Why doesn't the eath have as many craters as its Moon or Venus? These questions seem like they would be so easy to answer, but I am still having trouble figuring them out.

Why can't we see Venus at night but at dawn and dusk?

I took a look at this video of the transit: http://anon.nasa-global.speedera.net/anon.nasa-global/venus_transit/UV1600_eastlimb2.mov And something just doesn't look right. It appears that Venus changes direction once it comes into full view. I played it foward and backwards, put a...

Hi there I'm looking for a source of the maths that Halley did, and also that of Horrocks so that I can run through it with some Maths/Physics students. Google searches have given many different sites, but none have been that good so far. If anyone could help me with a link, I'd...

Transit of Venus - WHO SAW IT? Who Saw it? I stayed up all night with some of my friends watching movies as we waited for the sun to rise. Then when it started to we realized that the sun we could probably get a better view if we found a open farm field. So we all piled in a car, and I had...

Hey guys, I just wanted to know what everyone's up too for the June 8th eclipse of Venus...(and inform anyone who doesn't know)

I won't get to see this rare event in my part of the U.S. :frown: However, I still wanted to share with you all this conjunction of Venus and the Sun June 8th, 2004. http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/transit/venus0412.html

Working on my point paper of the https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=2974 and I need to address the runaway greenhouse effect ideas. Now we have this: http://www.vt-2004.org/Background/Infol2/EIS-D7.html I thought this would occur not below 900-1100 degrees celsius as in...

How to find out the mass of Mercury & Venus

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994136

Is this guy a space cadet, or does book speakum truth? I have never actually read this. I bought it but I don't even know where it is. I have listened to him quite a bit, and my wife got a calendar with a rule for each day sort of thing. Much of what I have seen really explodes with truth...

There may have been other threads, wondering about the mystery of Venus. Or to sum up: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/feature...enus/venus.html There seems to be some explaning to do here for the boldface. We have some tidal - gravity lock mechanism that may have caused that rotation stop, but...