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kevpet2005
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kevpet2005 asked in Science & MathematicsAstronomy & Space · 1 decade ago

Object transiting the sun?

I was watching the sun through a 4.5 -inch reflectng telescope when a round (spherical) object passed in front of the sun. It was perhaps a quarter the sun's diameter and took about ten seconds to complete a transit. Any ideas on what it was?

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  • shyam
    1 decade ago
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    may be a satellite would have crossed

  • wires
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    A planet wouldn't go that fast, nor would it be that big. Venus would appear to be about the size of a pea. It might have been a satellite, it sounds about right for the time, but I'm really guessing on that.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Could have been a satellite or else perhaps a planet happened to be passing by; Venus or Mercury, maybe.

  • SoCurious
    1 decade ago

    If it was a planet would it have really been going that fast?

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