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Old 06-06-2017, 02:30 PM
N1 (Mirko)
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Here ya go. Courtesy of Calsky

Some fun facts can be derived from it (I used the quick pdf search function):

- It appears separations during "good" inferior conjunctions will increase to about 2 degrees until about halfway between the last Transit pair and the next one (May 2068), then decrease until the next actual Transit. That kinda makes sense even without much thinking about it.

- From that halfway point onwards, it's the December pairs (separated 8 years) that make the closer approaches (Decembers 2069 and 2077 being the first one)

- The 2020 event (given here at 29.2 arc minutes) is the closest inferior conjunction until - wait for it - the next Transit of Venus in 2117. The December 2109 conjunction comes close at 36.8', but not quite..)

- After this year, it's less than 100 years until the next Transit of Venus
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