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Occultations of planets by Moon

One Hundred Millennium Catalog: 50 000 BC - 50 000 AD

Multiple Occultations

Though each planet is being occulted roughly 200 times a century, occasions where multiple planets are being occulted are extremely rarer. During the 100 000 years interval centered on the beginning of current era Moon occults three naked eye planets simultaneously only three times. There are not even close misses of four planets simultaneous occultation during this interval. Like single occultations, here observation is possible from only small portion of the world. Below you can find occasions when more than two planets are simultaneously occulted by Moon somewhere on Earth. In first two columns date and time of minimum geocentric separation between centers of all objects in uniform TT can be found. Next columns reveal planets being occulted and their respective estimated apparent magnitudes. Finally the elongation from Sun of the closest to Sun object is being displayed, in degrees. An asterisk follows the date in cases where the occurrence of event is uncertain.


      Date      Time              Planets                   Magnitudes        Elong

BC 22295 Nov 01 15:56   Mercury   Venus     Jupiter      -1.4  -3.9  -1.9      10 E
BC 20779 May 15 20:05   Mercury   Venus     Neptune      -0.7  -3.9   8.0      10 E
BC 14646 Oct 24 00:37 * Venus     Mars      Uranus       -4.5   1.0  -1.8      45 W
AD  8745 Apr 03 03:57   Mercury   Venus     Jupiter      -0.5  -3.9  -1.6      18 W
AD 22732 Nov 01 18:28   Mercury   Venus     Jupiter      -0.6  -3.9  -1.7      16 E

Occasions where Moon occults only two planets simultaneously are much more common. Please see the Eight Millennium Catalog of Dual Occultaions for a list of these still rare events.