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GLOSSARY
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Eclipses
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The Earth
moves round the Sun
once every year, and the Moon
moves around the Earth once every Lunar month.These movements of
the Earth and the Moon
bring about the most beautiful of celestial phenomenon-Eclipses.The
word Eclipse is derived from the Greek word 'elkeipses', meaning
forsaking or disappearance.
The eclipses are of two Types-
1) Solar Eclipses
2) Lunar Eclipses
There may be a maximum of seven eclipses in a calender year and
sometimes it may be as few as two.In the year in which there are
seven eclipses, five of these may be of the Sun and two of the Moon.When
there are only two eclipses, both of these must be of the Sun.
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SOLAR ECLIPSES
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A Solar Eclipse occurs
when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth,blocking the
Sun's light from reaching the Earth's Surface.
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![Total Solar Eclipse](images/Eclipses/hao.gif) |
LUNAR ECLIPSES
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A Lunar Eclipse occurs
when the Earth comes in between the Sun and the Moon, which means
that the Sun,Moon and the Earth lie along a straight line.The sunlight
falling on the Moon gets cut off as the Moon's straight going behind
the Earth and the Earth's shadow falls on the Moon, thus eclipsing
it.
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