Are you thinking about hosting or attending an event to celebrate this last-time in our lifetime event? Sun-Earth Day and the Solar Dynamics Observatory have combined forces to help you share your event with others from around the world!
Simply visit the 'VenusTransit' event registration site. Put as much or as little location information as you want. Please, at least, enter the city, state/province, country. We will geo-encode your entry and post it on the above Google Map within 24 hours. That's it!
The fastest coronal mass ejection was recorded on August 4, 1972 and traveled from the sun to earth in 14.6 hours - a speed of nearly 10 million kilometers per hour!