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transit comparison table

Subject	is preceeded by	has definition	is followed by	is a kind of
occultation phase		A phase during the occultation of a celestial body		conjunction
transit	immersion	The passage of a smaller, nearer astronomical object across the face of a larger object in the background, as in a transit of Venus across the Sun.	emersion	occultation phase

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