Solar eclipse of June 10, 2002

Solar eclipse of June 10, 2002
Partial from Los Angeles, CA
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.1993
Magnitude	0.9962
Maximum eclipse
Duration	23 sec (0 m 23 s)
Coordinates	34°30′N 178°36′W / 34.5°N 178.6°W
Max. width of band	13 km (8.1 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	23:45:22
References
Saros	137 (35 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9513

An annular solar eclipse occurred on 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.

Images

Related eclipses

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.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2000–2003

Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
117	July 1, 2000 Partial (south)		122	December 25, 2000 Partial (north)
127 Totality from Zambia	June 21, 2001 Total		132 Partial from Minneapolis, MN	December 14, 2001 Annular
137 Partial Los Angeles, CA	June 10, 2002 Annular		142	December 4, 2002 Total
147 Partial from Belfort	May 31, 2003 Annular		152	November 23, 2003 Total

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 1901 and 2100 

March 17, 1904 (Saros 128)	February 14, 1915 (Saros 129)	January 14, 1926 (Saros 130)
December 13, 1936 (Saros 131)	November 12, 1947 (Saros 132)	October 12, 1958 (Saros 133)
September 11, 1969 (Saros 134)	August 10, 1980 (Saros 135)	July 11, 1991 (Saros 136)
June 10, 2002 (Saros 137)	May 10, 2013 (Saros 138)	April 8, 2024 (Saros 139)
March 9, 2035 (Saros 140)	February 5, 2046 (Saros 141)	January 5, 2057 (Saros 142)
December 6, 2067 (Saros 143)	November 4, 2078 (Saros 144)	October 4, 2089 (Saros 145)
September 4, 2100 (Saros 146)

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).

20 eclipse events between June 10, 1964 and August 21, 2036. 

June 10–11	March 27–29	January 15–16	November 3	August 21–22
117	119	121	123	125
June 10, 1964	March 28, 1968	January 16, 1972	November 3, 1975	August 22, 1979
127	129	131	133	135
June 11, 1983	March 29, 1987	January 15, 1991	November 3, 1994	August 22, 1998
137	139	141	143	145
June 10, 2002	March 29, 2006	January 15, 2010	November 3, 2013	August 21, 2017
147	149	151	153	155
June 10, 2021	March 29, 2025	January 14, 2029	November 3, 2032	August 21, 2036

References

External links

• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements

Photos:

• A Partial Eclipse Over the Golden Gate Bridge, APOD 6/12/2002
• Photos and videos of annular solar eclipse (Japanese)
• Spaceweather.com: June 10, 2002 solar eclipse