Solar eclipse of March 10, 2100

Solar eclipse of March 10, 2100
Solar eclipse of March 10, 2100
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.3077
Magnitude	0.9338
Maximum eclipse
Duration	449 s (7 min 29 s)
Coordinates	12°00′N 162°24′W / 12°N 162.4°W
Max. width of band	257 km (160 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	22:28:11
References
Saros	141 (28 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9733

An annular solar eclipse will occur on March 10, 2100. 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 kilometers wide. The path of annularity will move from Indonesia at sunrise, over the islands of Hawaii and Maui around noon, and through the northwestern United States at sunset.

The eclipse will be visible over Indonesia and Pacific Ocean west of the International Date Line, on the morning of Thursday, March 11, 2100, and the Pacific Ocean east of International Date Line and North America on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 10, 2100. The path of annularity will be visible in those locations.

Related eclipses[edit]

Solar eclipses 2098–2100[edit]

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.^[1]

Solar eclipses 2098–2100
121	April 1, 2098 Partial	126	September 25, 2098 Partial
131	March 21, 2099 Annular	136	September 14, 2099 Total
141	March 10, 2100 Annular	146	September 4, 2100 Total

Inex series[edit]

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Inex series members between 1901 and 2100:
July 9, 1926 (Saros 135)	June 20, 1955 (Saros 136)	May 30, 1984 (Saros 137)
May 10, 2013 (Saros 138)	April 20, 2042 (Saros 139)	March 31, 2071 (Saros 140)
March 10, 2100 (Saros 141)