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| Preface | |
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| Organizing committee | |
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| Conference photograph | |
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| Conference participants | |
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| Transits of Venus: History, Results and Legacy | |
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| Jeremiah Horrocks, William Crabtree, and the Lancashire observations of the transit of Venus of 1639 [Keynote talk] | |
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| Jeremiah Horrocks's Lancashire | |
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| William Crabtree's Venus transit observation | |
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| Venus transits - A French view | |
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| James Cook's 1769 transit of Venus expedition to Tahiti | |
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| Observations of the 1761 and 1769 transits of Venus from Batavia (Dutch East Indies) | |
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| The 1761 transit of Venus dispute between Audiffredi and Pingre | |
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| Observations of planetary transits made in Ireland in the 18th Century and the development of astronomy in Ireland | |
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| The American transit of Venus expeditions of 1874 and 1882 | |
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| The Mexican expedition to observe the 8 December 1874 transit of Venus in Japan | |
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| Maya observations of 13th-century transits of Venus? | |
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| Lord Lindsay's expedition to Mauritius in 1874 | |
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| Why did other European astronomers not see the December 1639 transit of Venus? | |
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| The Brazilian contribution to the observation of the transit of Venus | |
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| The Au and the PC | |
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| The Astronomical Unit now [Keynote talk] | |
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| Precision time and the rotation of the Earth | |
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| Thomas Henderson and [alpha] Centauri | |
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| Transits, the Solar System and Extra-Solar Planets | |
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| Mikhail Lomonosov and the discovery of the atmosphere of Venus during the 1761 transit | |
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| Probing extrasolar planet atmospheres through transits | |
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| Precise determination of the motion of planets and some astronomical constants from modern observations | |
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| The black-drop effect explained | |
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| Orbit of a lunar artificial satellite: Analytical theory of perturbations | |
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| The Spin-orbit resonance of Mercury: a Hamiltonian approach | |
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| Observation and reduction of mutual events in the solar system | |
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| Early dynamical evolution of the Solar System: constraints from asteroid and KBO dynamics | |
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| Classical and modern orbit determination for asteroids | |
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| Transits of Venus and Mercury: Patterns of occurrence, and near-resonance phenomena | |
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| The Jeremiah Horrocks Memorial Public Lecture | |
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| Our Galaxy in three-dimensions | |
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| New Views of the Galaxy: Parallaxes, Distances and Implications for Astrophysics | |
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| The (f)utility of ground-based parallaxes | |
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| High-precision stellar parallaxes from Hubble Space Telescope fine guidance sensors | |
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| The Pleiades question, the definition of the zero-age main sequence, and implications | |
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| The distance to the Pleiades from the eclipsing binary HD 23642 | |
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| Chromatic effects in Hipparcos parallaxes and implications for distance scale | |
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| The use of eclipses in the evaluation of absolute stellar information | |
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| High precision pulsar astrometry and its applications | |
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| Statistical calibrations of trigonometric parallaxes | |
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| Parallaxes of L and T dwarfs | |
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| New Views of the Galaxy: Future Space and Ground-Based Programmes | |
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| Microarcsecond astrometry with Gaia: the solar system, the Galaxy and beyond | |
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| Radial Velocities with Gaia | |
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| JASMINE: Japan Astrometry Satellite Mission for INfrared Exploration | |
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| Overall design of JASMINE | |
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| The optical system for JASMINE and the CCD centroiding experiment | |
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| JASMINE simulator | |
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| Nano-JASMINE: a nano size astrometry satellite | |
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| The VERA project (VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry | |
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| Meeting Summary | |
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| Shades of the goddess: Venus in transit | |
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| Transit of Venus: 8 June 2004 - pictures from the transit and banquet | |
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| Author index | |