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Can a planet make a solar eclipse?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Yes it can. But the planets between the Earth and the Sun (Mercury and Venus) are so far away that they cast only tiny shadows as seen from Earth, unlike the comparatively nearby Moon.

When Mercury is seen crossing the Sun (next transit 2016), it is too small to be seen with the naked eye. When Venus crosses (next transits are in June 2012 and in 2117), it appears as a tiny dot about 1/100th the diameter of the Sun. Again, you would need special filters and a telescope to observe it crossing.

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