Spot the transit of Venus from Chile’s Easter Island This June
5, the remote island with its famed maoi statues will get a two-
hour glimpse of Venus as it crosses the face of the Sun. Friday,
June 01, 2012 Travelers enjoy an unmatched view of the
astronomical occurrence from Easter Island. (Photo courtesy of
Juan Ernesto Jaeger / Sernatur) It is the one of the rarest
predictable phenomena in the universe and if you miss it this
June 5, you won’t ever get another chance to see it. That’s
because the transit of Venus occurs in a pattern that repeats
itself every 243 years, in a pair of transits separated by eight
years, followed by a gap of 121.5 years, then another pair of
transits, and another 105.5-year gap. The last time that Venus
crossed the face of the Sun was in 2004 and after this June, the
next will be in 2117. The problem is that this 2012 occurrence
can only be viewed from certain locations ringing the Pacific
Ocean: northwestern North America, northeastern Asia, New
Zealand, eastern Australia and t