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Mercury transits, crosses over the disk of the sun, approximately 13 times per century, while Venus transits 14 times per thousand years. View these extremely rare forms of eclipses in accelerated time as part of a series from PBS 9-12 Space. Discussion questions help scholars synthesize the concepts.
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- Remind students these are high-speed videos displaying two hours of time over the course of 10 or fewer seconds
- Discuss, using Kepler's laws, why Mercury transits more frequently than Venus
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- Videos do not have sound
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- Designed to integrate with Google Classroom
- Written to meet Next Generation Science Standards as well as the Benchmarks for Science Literacy
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