• VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    7 months ago

    Fourth largest, possibly. Mercury and Venus are both larger than the Moon, and they do pass in front of the Sun from the perspective of Earth. Not that the shadow would be very noticeable.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      7 months ago

      Neither Mercury or Venus cast an umbra on Earth. Also Venus hasn’t done a solar transit since 2012 and won’t for about a century so there’s a lot of humans alive today who will never see a Venus transit.