Transit of Mercury from Jupiter
A '''[[astronomical transit|transit]] of [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] across the [[Sun]] as seen from [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]''' takes place when the planet Mercury passes directly between the Sun and Jupiter, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc for an observer on Jupiter. During a transit, Mercury can be seen from Jupiter as a small black disc moving across the face of the Sun.
A transit could hypothetically be observed from the surface of one of Jupiter's moons rather than from Jupiter itself. The times and circumstances of the transits would naturally be slightly different.
The Mercury-Jupiter [[synodic period]] is 89.792 days. It can be calculated using the formula 1/(1/P-1/Q), where P is the [[sidereal year|sidereal orbital period]] of Mercury (87.968435 days) and Q is the [[orbital period]] of Jupiter (4330.595 days).
The [[inclination]] of Mercury's orbit with respect to Jupiter's [[ecliptic]] is 6.29°, which is less than its value of 7.00° with respect to Earth's ecliptic.
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!colspan="2"|Transits of Mercury from Jupiter
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| [[December 25]] [[2005]]
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| [[March 26]] [[2006]]
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| [[November 28]] [[2011]]
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| [[February 26]] [[2012]]
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| [[January 12]] [[2018]]
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| [[September 17]] [[2023]]
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| [[December 15]] [[2023]]
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| [[October 31]] [[2029]]
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| [[July 6]] [[2035]]
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| [[October 3]] [[2035]]
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==See also==
* [[Astronomical transit]]
{{transit visibility table}}
==References==
* [[Albert Marth]], ''Note on the Transit of the Planet Mars and its Satellites across the Sun’s disc, which will occur for the Planet Jupiter and its Satellites on April 13, 1886'', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, '''46''' (1886), 161–164. [http://adsbit.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1886MNRAS..46..161M]
[[Category:Astronomical transits]]
[[it:Transito di Mercurio da Giove]]