Los Banos June 2012 Calendar of Events

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June 6 -The transit or passage of a planet across the disk of the Sun may be thought of as a special kind of eclipse. As seen from Earth, only transits of the inner planets Mercury and Venus are possible. Planetary transits are far more rare than eclipses of the Sun by the Moon. On the average, there are 13 transits of Mercury each century. In comparison, transits of Venus usually occur in pairs with eight years separating the two events. However, more than a century elapses between each transit pair. The first transit ever observed was of the planet Mercury in 1631 by the French astronomer Gassendi. A transit of Venus occurred just one month later but Gassendi's attempt to observe it failed because the transit was not visible from Europe. In 1639, Jerimiah Horrocks and William Crabtree became the first to witness a transit of Venus. Transits of Venus across the disk of the Sun are among the rarest of planetary alignments. Indeed, only six such events have occurred since the invention of the telescope (1631, 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874 and 1882). The next two transits of Venus will occur on 2004 June 08 and 2012 June 06. The principal events occurring during a transit are characterized by contacts. The event begins with contact I which is the instant when the planet's disk is externally tangent with the Sun. The entire disk of the Venus is first seen at contact II when the planet is internally tangent with the Sun. During the next several hours, Venus gradually traverses the solar disk at a relative angular rate of approximately 4 arc-min/hr. At contact III, the planet reaches the opposite limb and is once again internally tangent with the Sun. The transit ends at contact IV when the planet's limb is externally tangent to the Sun. Contacts I and II define the phase called ingress while contacts III and IV are known as egress. Greatest transit is the instant of minimum angular separation between Venus and the Sun as seen from Earth's geocenter.

June 26 - JUNE 26 - SECOND AMMENDMENT DAY June 26th is Second Ammendment Day - the day that commemorates the United States Supreme Court's historic ruling in a case called "DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ET AL. v. HELLER" which struck down a handgun ban and established once and for all the precedent and rule of law that protects individual freedom of the right to keep and bear arms for citizens of the United States.

The supreme court had never before conclusively interpreted the Second Amendment since the ammendment's original ratification in 1791. The 2nd amendment reads: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

Many people and politicians had come to the wrong conclusion that because of the first clause in the ammendment that it was meant only to cover a 'regulated militia'. This is not so nor is that interpretation even gramatically correct.

On June 26, 2008 the United States Supreme Court Ruled against those who would take liberty from Americans saying: "The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home." thus overturning a handgun ban in Washington DC.

The Supreme Court Stated "The Amendment’s prefatory clause announces a purpose, but does not limit or expand the scope of the second part, the operativeclause. The operative clause’s text and history demonstrate that itconnotes an individual right to keep and bear arms."

This historic decission is celebrated by Americans who believe in personal liberty and ALL of the rights granted to us in the constitution of the United States Of America particularly the first 10 Ammendments known as the Bill of Rights.

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