Eclipse

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Apr 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002eaa..booke2017p&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2017. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Sun, Solar Atmosphere

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An eclipse of the Sun is an OCCULTATION at which the Moon comes between the Earth and the Sun, blocking some or all of the sunlight from reaching an observer. Eclipses result from the fortuitous circumstance that the angular sizes of the Sun and the Moon as seen from Earth are the same to within about 10%, although in absolute diameter they differ by a factor of 400....

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