Two bright major planets will be occulted in 2010. There is probably little new that can be learned from occultations of major planets events in this age of space exploration, but they are still interesting to watch. Photometric records, possibly derived from video recordings, could be used to determine the sizes of asteroids, although timings of occultations of stars by minor planets give more accurate information. - D. DunhamAll times given in these predictions are in Universal Time. Predictions included both disappearance and reappearance times, although depending on the phase of the moon, one or the other may not be possible to observe at the instant of the event. When Moon % is "+" (waxing), the star will disappear on the dark side, and reappearance is on the bright side; when the Moon % is "-" (waning), the star will reappear on the dark side, and disappearance on the bright side. Observing disappearances and reappearance of stars on the bright side are difficult, and accuracies in timing these events are not reliable.Note: Cities will be prefixed with their 2 letter country code. Those for the United States will also include the 2 letter state code after the city. For a complete listing of the 2 letter country codes used in the predictions please download this PDF file for reference.
If there are no predications with the accompanying map of coverage, it is because it is either a daytime event, or in sparsely located regions where cities in the Occult database do not exist
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Date UT - Time UT Planet Magnitude Moon Phase Visible Area & Predictions 16 May - 12h Venus -3.9 7+ northern Africa, Middle East, southern Asia 29 May - 21h Ceres 7.5 96- southern Africa, Mauritius 25 Jun - 18h Ceres 7.3 99+ Iran, Pakistan, central Asia 08 Jul - 19h Iris 9.8 11- southwestern Siberia, northern China 06 Aug - 10h Iris 9.8 18- Mexico, Central America, southeast USA 11 Sep - 14h Venus -4.7 14+ eastern Brazil, southern Africa (daytime - no predictions) 15 Sep - 20h Eunomia 10.2 56+ southern Africa (daytime - no predictions) 30 Oct - 7h Iris 9.4 52- southern South America 01 Nov - 22h Juno 10.3 23- western Russia 05 Nov - 7h Venus -4.2 1- southern Africa, western Australia (daytime) 26 Nov - 23h Iris 9.0 70- southern Europe, northern Africa, southwest Asia 06 Dec - 23h Mars 1.5 1+ Manitoba to Carolinas (USA) and Cuba
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