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27-Solar Eclipses
List of Eclipses,    Eclipses,    Lunar Eclipse

List of Solar Eclipses

228 Solar Eclipses took place in 20th century and 
224 Solar Eclipses will take place in 21st century.

1994 Solar Eclipse
1995 Solar Eclipse
1997, Mar 9
1998, Feb 26 - Total Eclipse)
1999, Feb 16 (Annular)
2000, Feb 5 (Partial)
2001, Jun 21
2002, Dec 4
2007, Mar 3
2008, Aug 1 - Total Eclipse
2009, Jul 21*
2015, Mar 20
2033, Mar 30

*To Solar eclipse on 21st July 2009 was a very serious one. People in India declared it like a Mahaabhaarat time's eclipse which should bring many earthquakes and natural calamities in the world.

Lunar Eclipses
see     List of Lunar Eclipses    http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE2008Feb21/TLE2008Feb21.html

During 2000 BC - 3000 AD, in 5,000 years, there are 7,718 Moon Eclipses (0-3 Moon Eclipses each year). The last total Lunar Eclipse visible from the entire continental United States occurred on August 28, 2007. North Americans will have their next opportunity to see a total lunar eclipse in 2010, on Dec 21,

1982, Dec 30 - Total Eclipse
2000, Jan 20/21 - Total Eclipse
2000, Jul 16 - Total Eclipse
2004, Oct 8 - Total Eclipse
2007, Mar 3/4  - Total Eclipse seen in London, took 6 hours to cross the whole Moon
2007, Aug 28/29 - Australia. Total Eclipse
2008, Feb 20/21 - USA, Western Europe, Asia and Western Asia (on 21st) - during the total eclipse the Moon's disk can take on a
          dramatically colorful appearance from bright orange to blood red to dark brown and (rarely) very dark gray. The totality will
          last just only  under 50 minutes - bit less than the last Total Lunar Eclipse on Aug 27, 2007, which lasted 90 minutes. The whole
          Eclipse this time is 3.26 hours - 8.43 pm - 12.09 am.
2008, Aug - Partial Eclipse
2010, Dec 20 - Total Eclipse

Triple Eclipses

2000  Three Eclipses in one calendar month - 1st July, 16th July and 31st July
2009  Three Eclipses in one calendar month - 7th July (Lunar), 22nd July (Total, Solar - the longest of the 21st century) and 5th August (Lunar)

--The first recorded triple Eclipse occurred in 3067 BC and coincided with the Kurukshetra war.
--Another triple Eclipse occurred in 3031 BC coincided with the destruction of the ancient city of Dwaarkaa.
--More recently, the first half of the 20th century saw the occurrence of a series of triple Eclipse between 1910 and 1945, which coincided with World War I and II, the Holocaust, and the nuclear bombings in Japan.

 

 

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