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LicenseModel to illustrate the Transit of Venus
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Model to illustrate the Transit of Venus
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Model to illustrate the Transit of Venus
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Model to illustrate the Transit of Venus
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Model to illustrate the Transit of Venus, made for the Science Museum to celebrate the transit of 8 June 2004
A Transit of Venus, where the planet Venus passes between the sun and the earth, happens very rarely and that of 2004 was the first for over one hundred years. A small exhibition was mounted at the time in the Science Museum’s ‘Antenna’ area and this recently-made model was purchased as its centrepiece. As part of the permanent collection it now complements the existing holding of transit-related objects, which date mainly from the eighteenth century.
Details
- Category:
- Astronomy
- Object Number:
- 2004-242
- Measurements:
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: 300 x 300 x 300 mm
- type:
- demonstration models, orreries and planetaria (models)
- credit:
- Purchased
