How to Use occultation in a Sentence

occultation

noun

• Known as the lunar occultation of Mars, the full moon will briefly obscure the Red Planet in the night sky.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2022
• For a full list of times for the occultation of Jupiter on May 17th from your location, jump here.
  — Michael D'estries, Treehugger, 1 May 2023
• The events, called occultations, happen when the object blocks out the star and casts a tiny shadow on Earth.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2017
• Researchers were able to capture an occultation and a transit of the planet and the star using Cheops.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Sep. 2020
• In some global regions, the moon will appear to eclipse Mars from view, an event known as a lunar occultation.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
• Known as a lunar occultation, the moon will seem to glide in front of Mars from 10 to 20 minutes, as seen across a vast portion of the central region of the continent.
  — National Geographic, 2 Sep. 2020
• Everyone inside the curved white path can see the occultation.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2022
• Central Time, Apophis will move across the face of a distant star, creating what astronomers call an occultation.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2021
• For lucky sky-watchers across North America, the pair will be so close in the sky that Aldebaran will appear to slip behind the lunar disk in an event known as an occultation.
  — National Geographic, 1 Sep. 2017
• An occultation of a star of Betelgeuse’s brightness can be seen from Earth only every few decades, per Sky & Telescope.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
• Members of the New Horizons team crisscrossed oceans and continents, hoping to observe these occultations when the stars briefly vanished as MU69 passed in front of them.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2017
• These eclipsing events, known as occultations, have allowed the mission scientists to better understand the true shape and size of the object.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 29 Aug. 2018
• This also isn’t the first time that Gaia has predicted an occultation event, either.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 June 2022
• Although no occultation occurred from the photographer's location, skywatchers in other parts of the world saw the Moon pass in front of the Red Planet.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
• So New Horizons team members set up shop in various spots along the occultation path and pointed their telescopes skyward.
  — Mike Wall Space.com Senior Writer, Fox News, 7 July 2017
• The team also observed the WASP-189 system during occultation—when a planet passes behind a star.
  — Paola Rosa-Aquino, Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2020
• More than 50 astronomers positioned on both continents set up something of a fence line of telescopes along the predicted path of the shadow, hoping to catch a two-second glimpse of the occultation.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2017
• During an occultation, the planet passes behind the star.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Sep. 2020
• An occultation occurs when one object — such as an asteroid or planet in our own solar system — passes in front of a star.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2019
• The occultation revealed that Ultima Thule is either shaped like a rubber duck, looking a bit like two mounds squashed together.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 27 Dec. 2018
• MU69 recently moved in front of the light from a distant star on June 3, an event known as an occultation, similar in a way to a solar eclipse or a planetary transit, but smaller and quicker.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2017
• The hour-long occultation is only visible from a narrow path across Earth, which includes North America and Europe.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2021
• The lunar occultation of Uranus occurs first on December 5.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2022
• Lunar Occultations When a planet slides behind the moon, it’s called an occultation.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2022
• This rare celestial alignment is known as an occultation.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2020
• Thanks to an extraterrestrial event known as the lunar occultation, Mars will be in close proximity to December's full moon.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2022
• Recently, astronomers searching through databases of occultations found evidence of a ring around Quaoar.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
• However, there are legions of amateur astronomers along the occultation path, all with backyard telescopes.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2021
• While occultation events aren’t uncommon in space observations—lunar eclipses happen quite often—one like this is fairly rare.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 June 2022
• An occultation in 1977 led astronomers to discover the rings of Uranus, while occultations of Pluto allowed researchers to probe the dwarf planet’s tenuous atmosphere.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2019

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