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At first everything seemed emphatically clear. The Moon passes in front of the Sun, covering all or most of its disk; that’s an eclipse. Mercury or Venus are little more than a tiny speck and a small dot, respectively, when they cross the Sun, which is not visibly dimmed; that’s a transit.
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Westfall, J., Sheehan, W. (2015). A Difference in Degree: Transits and Eclipses. In: Celestial Shadows. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 410. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1535-4_8
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