Solar eclipse of March 10, 2100

12°00′N 162°24′W / 12°N 162.4°W / 12; -162.4Max. width of band257 km (160 mi)Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse22:28:11ReferencesSaros141 (28 of 70)Catalog # (SE5000)9733

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Wednesday, March 10 and Thursday, March 11, 2100, with a magnitude of 0.9338. 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

Eclipses in 2100

• A penumbral lunar eclipse on February 24, 2100.
• An annular solar eclipse on March 10, 2100.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on August 19, 2100.
• A total solar eclipse on September 4, 2100.

Metonic

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 22, 2096
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 29, 2103

Tzolkinex

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 27, 2093
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 23, 2107

Half-Saros

• Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of March 5, 2091
• Followed by: Lunar eclipse of March 17, 2109

Tritos

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 10, 2089
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 8, 2111

Solar Saros 141

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 27, 2082
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 22, 2118

Inex

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 31, 2071
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 18, 2129

Triad

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 10, 2013
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 9, 2187

Solar eclipses of 2098–2100

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

Saros 141

Solar saros 141, repeating every about 18 years, 11 days, and 8 hours, contains 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 19, 1613. It contains 41 annular eclipses from August 4, 1739, to October 14, 2460. There are no total eclipses in this series. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on June 13, 2857. The longest annular eclipse occurred on December 14, 1955, with maximum duration of annularity at 12 minutes and 9 seconds. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node.^[2]

Series members 17–36 occur between 1901 and 2259
17	18	19
November 11, 1901	November 22, 1919	December 2, 1937
20	21	22
December 14, 1955	December 24, 1973	January 4, 1992
23	24	25
January 15, 2010	January 26, 2028	February 5, 2046
26	27	28
February 17, 2064	February 27, 2082	March 10, 2100
29	30	31
March 22, 2118	April 1, 2136	April 12, 2154
32	33	34
April 23, 2172	May 4, 2190	May 15, 2208
35	36
May 27, 2226	June 6, 2244

Inex series

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)

References

External links

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