All Planet: Eclipse on Christmas day 2000

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A solar eclipse is coming on
Christmas Day, 2000!

From sunrise, here in California. According to NASA, the winter landscape across parts of North America will assume an eerie cast, and cooler-than-usual winds might swirl, as the New Moon glides across the face of the Yuletide Sun.

Above: This unique eclipse animation, courtesy of Dr. Andrew Sinclair, shows the motion of the Moon's shadow across Earth's surface during the Dec. 25th eclipse.
Click on the image above,
or here to visit Dr. Espenak's Eclipse page.

The biggest "dent" in the Sun will appear at 1723 Universal Time (12:23 EST) on Dec. 25th when the peak of 72% of the Sun's diameter will be covered by the Moon. Unfortunately, only the residents of Baffin Island in northern Canada will see so much of the Sun obscured.
Elsewhere, the eclipse magnitude will vary from ~60% in the northeastern USA to less than 20% in the far southwest. (Eclipse magnitude is the percent of the Sun's diameter covered by the Moon.)
Observers in those northeastern regions where the eclipse magnitude will be greatest might note a subtle change in the cast of sunlight across the landscape. Elsewhere, the day will appear as brightly lit as usual.
And if you happen to spend a little too long opening gifts on Christmas morning, and miss the eclipse, don't despair! There are at least two solar eclipses every year and --on rare occasions-- as many as five. Visit NASA's Five Millennium Catalog of Solar Eclipses to find out when the next eclipse will be visible from your part of the world.

Another one is hopefully right "around the corner"!

FULL STORY at
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/

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COMING ECLIPSES in 2001

Local Circumstances at Greatest Eclipse: 2001 to 2100

               U.T.
            Greatest    Saros        Eclipse              Sun Path Center
     Date    Eclipse Type #    Gamma   Mag.   Lat. Long. Alt Width Dur.
                                               °      °     ° km

2001 Jun 21 12:04   T 127 -0.570 1.050 11.3S   2.7E 55 200 04m57s
2001 Dec 14 20:52   A 132   0.409 0.968   0.6N 130.7W 66 126 03m53s
2002 Jun 10 23:44   A 137   0.199 0.996 34.6N 178.6W 78   13 00m23s
2002 Dec 04 07:31   T 142 -0.302 1.024 39.5S 59.5E 72   87 02m04s
2003 May 31 04:08   An 147   0.996 0.938 66.4N 24.7W   3   -   03m37s
2003 Nov 23 22:49   T 152 -0.964 1.038 72.7S 88.4E 15 495 01m57s
2004 Apr 19 13:34   P 119 -1.133 0.736 61.6S 44.3E   0
2004 Oct 14 02:59   P 124   1.035 0.927 61.2N 153.6W   0
2005 Apr 08 20:36   H 129 -0.347 1.007 10.6S 119.0W 70   27 00m42s
2005 Oct 03 10:32   A 134   0.330 0.958 12.9N 28.7E 71 162 04m32s

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