Planet Combustion
Periods in 2000 when a planet is so close to the Sun that it is combust (Asta). Marriage and other ceremonies are avoided while Jupiter or Venus is combust.
Combust periods 2000
| Planet | From | To | Days | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | 21 Dec 1999, 21:45 | 05 Feb 2000, 07:16 | 45 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Mercury | 24 Feb 2000, 05:22 | 07 Mar 2000, 23:34 | 12 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Saturn | 23 Apr 2000, 05:59 | 29 May 2000, 00:38 | 35 | Within 15 degrees of the Sun |
| Jupiter | 23 Apr 2000, 09:42 | 23 May 2000, 12:49 | 30 | Within 11 degrees of the Sun |
| Mercury | 26 Apr 2000, 08:05 | 21 May 2000, 14:08 | 25 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Mars | 01 May 2000, 14:46 | 26 Aug 2000, 03:16 | 116 | Within 17 degrees of the Sun |
| Venus | 05 May 2000, 07:46 | 18 Jul 2000, 00:28 | 73 | Within 10 degrees of the Sun (8 when retrograde) |
| Mercury | 28 Jun 2000, 15:52 | 15 Jul 2000, 02:31 | 16 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Mercury | 08 Aug 2000, 16:05 | 07 Sep 2000, 13:12 | 29 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Mercury | 24 Oct 2000, 16:51 | 05 Nov 2000, 05:20 | 11 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Mercury | 30 Nov 2000, 05:07 | 17 Jan 2001, 15:48 | 48 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
Times are local to New Delhi, Delhi, India, worked out with the sidereal (Lahiri) zodiac. Sunrise and sunset are for the upper edge of the Sun with normal refraction.