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1 posted on 09/13/2014 12:28:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

There are also “supersuns” and “microsuns” by the same meaning, although the variation is less because the Earth’s orbit around the sun is more circular than the moon’s orbit around the Earth. When a solar eclipse happens during a supermoon and/or a microsun, they are total, because the moon is then big enough to cover the entire sun. But when solar eclipses happen during micromoons, and especially so during supersuns, one gets annular eclipses, because the moon then doesn’t fully cover the sun.


4 posted on 09/13/2014 12:35:06 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: SunkenCiv

So why is the moon upside down now?

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5 posted on 09/13/2014 12:54:31 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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