Re: [APML] Mercury Transit

["Michael D. Turner" <mturner999@earthlink.net>]

Great excuse for a sunburn in the month of May! I'll bet not one of these 
people have ever seen Mercury any other way...and there's an even bigger 
black dot coming up about 13 months from now. I'll certainly be happy to 
acquire a sunburn for that one :)
-Mike

At 08:50 AM 5/8/2003 +0800, you wrote:
>You bet. I have been listening to this kind of comment the whole 5 
>hours.  Most people think we were crazy to be under a 40C sun and getting 
>sunburn for a tiny little dot.  Many were expecting to see features of 
>Mercury because  Mercury was suppose to be closest to the earth during 
>that time.  I had to explain to them that we can only see mercury's 
>shadow.  They would exclaim, "and your out here for that?"
>
>Regards,
>
>Chris
>
>At 08:33 PM 05/07/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>Nice catch!
>>It amazing how we astronomers get excited about some little black dot....
>><g>
>>
>>Chris

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