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General Introduction To the Year 2012

What's 2012 treating us with? Most of all, 2012 is the year to the June 5-6th, 2012 transit of Venus, one of both in a series which won't be back before next century, by 2117! A very rare event thus and to observe if available in your sky! 2012 is a also a leap year with February at 29 days! As Venus is keeping a evening star until in May and then will turn into a morning star, 2012 keeps a Martian Observation Campaign's year with the greates reached in early March. As far as eclipses are concerned, the Pacific areas are treated with a annular and a total solar eclipse this year as a fine partial lunar eclipse occurs and a penumbral one. In space the new NASA Martian rover should reach Mars as it will be the 50th anniversary of the first American in space, Major John H. Glenn. A Chinese lunar rover should launch too