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The Moon has phases, but so does Venus! This finding, by Galileo, a personal hero, was momentous. Venus must revolve around the Sun! In this experiment, we’ll observe Venus over the semester and, believe it or not, determine its distance from the Sun.
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Golden, L.M. (2013). Experiment 11 The Orbit of Venus. In: Laboratory Experiments in Physics for Modern Astronomy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3311-8_11
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