Total Solar Eclipse
Dan’s Fact of the Day:
The sun is about 400 times larger than the moon; the moon is also approximately 400 times closer to the earth, so that both objects extend nearly identical angular sizes of about 1/2 degree. So when the moon gets in the way of the sun as seen from the planet Earth, A solar eclipses occurs!
Quite an amazing cosmic coincidence!
The sun is about 400 times larger than the moon; the moon is also approximately 400 times closer to the earth, so that both objects extend nearly identical angular sizes of about 1/2 degree. So when the moon gets in the way of the sun as seen from the planet Earth, A solar eclipses occurs!
Quite an amazing cosmic coincidence!
No other planets in our solar system enjoy the same one-to-one ratio. If the moon were slightly farther away or smaller (or the sun closer or larger in size), total solar eclipses would not be possible.
posted by Dan @ 2:40 AM
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