Nature Partial Magnitude 0.7228 Saros 122 (57 of 70) Start date December 25, 2000 | Gamma 1.1367 Greatest eclipse 17:35:57 Catalog # (SE5000) 9510 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on December 25, 2000. 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. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
Solar eclipses 2000-2003
Each member 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.
Note: Partial solar eclipses on February 5, 2000 and July 31, 2000 occur in the previous lunar year set.
References
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