Longest Annular Solar Eclipse of the Millennium January 15, 2010

The solar eclipse of January 15, 2010 is an annular eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 0.9190.

This is the longest annular solar eclipse of the millennium, and the longest until December 23, 3043, with a maximum length of 11 mins and 7.8 seconds. (The solar eclipse of January 4, 1992 was longer, at 11 minutes, 41 seconds, occurring in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

After 108 years it just Happened.

Sounion, Greece. Jan. 15, 2010

 

Manila Philippines

 

  Dehkade, Karaj, Iran

   

 Weishan Lake, Shandong, China

 

Lijiang, China

Kerman, Iran

 

Sizihwan, Kaoshung City, Taiwan

  

  Esfahan, Iran

   

  Solar eclipse Jan 15, 2010 in Chiang Mai, Thailand

 

A picture tshows a partial solar eclipse over Gaza City of on January 15, 2010. An annular eclipse raced across central and eastern Africa on January 15, briefly reducing the Sun to a blazing ring surrounding a sombre disk. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

 

A picture shows a partial solar eclipse over Gaza City of on January 15, 2010. An annular eclipse raced across central and eastern Africa on January 15, briefly reducing the Sun to a blazing ring surrounding a sombre disk. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

A picture tshows a partial solar eclipse over Gaza City of on January 15, 2010. An annular eclipse raced across central and eastern Africa on January 15, briefly reducing the Sun to a blazing ring surrounding a sombre disk. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

  

A picture tshows a partial solar eclipse over Gaza City of on January 15, 2010. An annular eclipse raced across central and eastern Africa on January 15, briefly reducing the Sun to a blazing ring surrounding a sombre disk. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

  

 A picture tshows a partial solar eclipse over Gaza City of on January 15, 2010. An annular eclipse raced across central and eastern Africa on January 15, briefly reducing the Sun to a blazing ring surrounding a sombre disk. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

  

 A picture tshows a partial solar eclipse over Gaza City of on January 15, 2010. An annular eclipse raced across central and eastern Africa on January 15, briefly reducing the Sun to a blazing ring surrounding a sombre disk. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

 

A picture tshows a partial solar eclipse over Gaza City of on January 15, 2010. An annular eclipse raced across central and eastern Africa on January 15, briefly reducing the Sun to a blazing ring surrounding a sombre disk. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

 

 A picture tshows a partial solar eclipse over Gaza City of on January 15, 2010. An annular eclipse raced across central and eastern Africa on January 15, briefly reducing the Sun to a blazing ring surrounding a sombre disk. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

 

Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah ... President of the richest country in the world

Sultan of Brunei's wealth increases by 90 euros every second!
This means around 5400 euros per minute, 324000 euros each hour, 7776000 euros a day Implies about 54432000 euros a week (that's 54 million and 432000 thousand euros)

Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah ... President of the richest country in the world
Popular, lavish, ... uses gold in everything
Was born literally eating with spoons made of gold
Clothes worn embroidered with gold and silver

These are some pictures of his palace ...
The largest and most luxurious palace in the world...
Consists of 1788 rooms with some furnished in gold and diamond-encrusted
257 bath inlaid with gold and silver
and a garage to accommodate 110 cars
The palace has 650 suites ... each furnished at not less than 150,000 thousand euros
This requires the visitor to spend 24 hours just to inspect each room for 30 seconds

The Sultan of Brunei's plane

Most luxurious aircraft in the world, inlaid with gold
The Sultan has also a Boeing 747 worth a hundred million dollars,
and then re-designed as a home at a cost of more than one hundred and twenty million dollars.
Featured add-ons such as a whirlpool bath of pure gold
He also has six small aircraft and two helicopters.  

 

  

One of the cars of theSultan of Brunei

At the special request of the Sultan of Brunei,
theRolls Royce company
combined their car designs with that of Porsche.
This vehicle is currently in London
for use during his stay in Britain 

 When the Sultan of Brunei's daughter married,
the legendary celebrations continued for 14 days,
at a cost of about five million dollars,
attended by more than 25 heads of state and family members. 

Sultan of Brunei car inlaid with pure gold

 

The Princess wears a crown of diamonds
and carries a small bouquet of flowers studded with diamonds.
She also wears huge diamonds as earrings, adding sparkle to her face.

 

He has 531 Mercedes-Benzes  367 Ferraris  362 Bentleys 185 BMWs 177 Jaguars 160 Porsches  130 Rolls-Royces And 20 Lamborghinis Bringing the total number of his cars to 1,932

Real-life Simpson's house

Out Fox and Pepsi built this house for a contest that a woman named Barbara H. won. The house is located in Nevada and it is an exact replica of The Simpson's house. How cool is that!