Solar eclipse of June 10, 2002

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Solar eclipse of June 10, 2002
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Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma 0.1993
Magnitude 0.9962
Maximum eclipse
Duration23 s (0 min 23 s)
Coordinates 34°30′N178°36′W / 34.5°N 178.6°W / 34.5; -178.6
Max. width of band13 km (8.1 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse23:45:22
References
Saros 137 (35 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9513

An annular solar eclipse occurred on Monday, June 10, 2002. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. Annularity was visible in Indonesia, Palau (Kayangel Atoll), Northern Mariana on June 11 (Tuesday), and the western tip of Jalisco, Mexico, on June 10 (Monday). This eclipse was during the 2002 FIFA World Cup. The closest apogee occurred on June 4, 2002. It was the first annular solar eclipse visible in the Pacific in 6 months.

Contents

It was partially visible in some areas of the United States; in Ventura, in southern California, some observation stations were set up for public viewing. [1] In Palm Desert, in the Coachella Valley, it was clearly visible, and it "got dark, it got cool, and it got eerie". [2] A "solar eclipse party" in Fresno drew around 400 attendees, [3] and as far north as Napa Valley, dozens of people went outside to watch the eclipse., [4] and it was visible in Utah. [5] Canada's National Post predicted a "substantial crowd" for Vancouver, despite the eclipse there being less than 60%; [6] even in Victoria, where the eclipse was as low as 30%, dozens attended a show at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. [7]

Observations

During this eclipse, the apex of the moon's umbral cone was close to the Earth's surface, and the magnitude was large. The edges of the moon and the sun were close to each other as seen from the Earth. Baily's beads on the lunar limb, which are usually only visible during a total solar eclipse, could also be seen. Since the path of annularity was mostly on the sea and covered very little land, and the Maluku sectarian conflict prevented many observers from going to the Maluku Islands, Indonesia, observations were mainly concentrated in Palau, Northern Mariana Islands and Mexico. A Japanese team made a live webcast on Tinian Island [8] . The local weather was clear at sunrise. The sun was completely covered by clouds 20 minutes before the maximum eclipse, but finally came out from the clouds shortly before the maximum [9] [10] . In Mexico,because the annular eclipse occurred shortly before sunrise and the solar zenith angle was extremely low on land, many people observed at sea off the ports including Puerto Vallarta. However, the eclipse was mostly clouded out due to the Tropical Storm Boris, and it even rained in some places. The sun only appeared occasionally [11] .

Images

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Eclipses of 2002

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Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 137

Inex

Solar eclipses 2000–2003

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit. [12]

Partial solar eclipses on February 5, 2000 and July 31, 2000 occur in the previous lunar year set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2000 to 2003
Ascending node Descending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
117 2000 July 01
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Partial (south)
−1.28214122 2000 December 25
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Partial (north)
1.13669
127
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Totality from Lusaka, Zambia
2001 June 21
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Total
−0.57013132
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Partial from Minneapolis, MN
2001 December 14
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Annular
0.40885
137
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Partial from Los Angeles, CA
2002 June 10
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Annular
0.19933142
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Totality from Woomera
2002 December 04
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Total
−0.30204
147
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Culloden, Scotland
2003 May 31
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Annular
0.99598152 2003 November 23
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Total
−0.96381

Saros 137

It is a part of Saros cycle 137, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 25, 1389. It contains total eclipses from August 20, 1533, through December 6, 1695, first set of hybrid eclipses from December 17, 1713, through February 11, 1804, first set of annular eclipses from February 21, 1822, through March 25, 1876, second set of hybrid eclipses from April 6, 1894, through April 28, 1930, and second set of annular eclipses from May 9, 1948, through April 13, 2507. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on June 28, 2633. The longest duration of totality was 2 minutes, 55 seconds on September 10, 1569. Solar Saros 137 has 55 umbral eclipses from August 20, 1533, through April 13, 2507 (973.62 years). That's almost 1 millennium!

Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2100
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December 21, 1805
(Saros 119)
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November 19, 1816
(Saros 120)
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October 20, 1827
(Saros 121)
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September 18, 1838
(Saros 122)
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August 18, 1849
(Saros 123)
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July 18, 1860
(Saros 124)
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June 18, 1871
(Saros 125)
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May 17, 1882
(Saros 126)
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April 16, 1893
(Saros 127)
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March 17, 1904
(Saros 128)
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February 14, 1915
(Saros 129)
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January 14, 1926
(Saros 130)
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December 13, 1936
(Saros 131)
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November 12, 1947
(Saros 132)
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October 12, 1958
(Saros 133)
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September 11, 1969
(Saros 134)
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August 10, 1980
(Saros 135)
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July 11, 1991
(Saros 136)
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June 10, 2002
(Saros 137)
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May 10, 2013
(Saros 138)
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April 8, 2024
(Saros 139)
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March 9, 2035
(Saros 140)
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February 5, 2046
(Saros 141)
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January 5, 2057
(Saros 142)
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December 6, 2067
(Saros 143)
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November 4, 2078
(Saros 144)
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October 4, 2089
(Saros 145)
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September 4, 2100
(Saros 146)

In the 22nd century:

In the 23rd century:

Metonic series

The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's ascending node.

21 eclipse events, progressing from south to north between June 10, 1964, and August 21, 2036
June 10–11March 27–29January 15–16November 3August 21–22
117119121123125
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June 10, 1964
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March 28, 1968
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January 16, 1972
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November 3, 1975
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August 22, 1979
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June 11, 1983
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March 29, 1987
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January 15, 1991
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November 3, 1994
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August 22, 1998
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June 10, 2002
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March 29, 2006
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January 15, 2010
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November 3, 2013
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August 21, 2017
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June 10, 2021
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March 29, 2025
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January 14, 2029
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November 3, 2032
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August 21, 2036

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