Empirical Observations
Transits sometimes repeat after 13062.8 days (about 35 years and 9 months). This corresponds to 15.998 Mars-Jupiter synodic periods, or 19.01 Mars orbital periods, or 3.01 Jupiter orbital periods. However, in many cases, the transit does not repeat because the second event is a near-miss instead. This period is analogous to the 8-year pairing of transits of Venus. Longer cycles with a closer match are a cycle with an approximately 56,333-day (about 154 years and 3 months) period that is equal to 69 Mars-Jupiter synodic periods and a cycle with an approximately 212,273-day (about 581 years and 2 months) period that is equal to 260 Mars-Jupiter synodic periods.
| Transits of Mars from Jupiter |
|---|
| July 29, 1613 |
| May 18, 1631 |
| January 17, 1732 |
| November 7, 1749 |
| October 24, 1767 |
| August 12, 1785 |
| April 13, 1886 |
| February 3, 1904 |
| January 19, 1922 |
| November 8, 1939 |
| July 8, 2040 |
| April 28, 2058 |
| February 1, 2094 |
| December 26, 2158 |
| October 2, 2194 |
| July 24, 2212 |
| March 23, 2313 |
| January 14, 2331 |
| December 28, 2348 |
| October 19, 2366 |
| June 17, 2467 |
Read more about this topic: Transit Of Mars From Jupiter
Famous quotes containing the words empirical and/or observations:
“To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, about what is actual and observable.... It must involve throughout a resolute rejection of the demand for an explanation of the regularities in the observable course of nature, by means of truths concerning a reality beyond what is actual and observable, as a demand which plays no role in the scientific enterprise.”
—Bas Van Fraassen (b. 1941)
“By sharing the information and observations with the caregiver, you have a chance to see your child through another pair of eyes. Because she has some distance and objectivity, a caregiver often sees things that a parent’s total involvement with her child doesn’t allow.”
—Amy Laura Dombro (20th century)