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- From: leroy@cluster.gps.caltech.edu (Stephen Leroy)
- Newsgroups: alt.sci.planetary
- Subject: Re: Solar eclipse Question
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:04:43 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- In article <1993Jan21.230333.46626@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> christos@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >Hello there,
- >
- > I have a question concerning the solar eclipse.
- >1. Is the moon rotating around the earth in a single plane sothat every 29 days
- >it comes in between the sun and the earth? If that is the case different places
- >of the earth should have solar eclipse every 29 days(period of the ratatioon of
- >the moon around the earth).
- >
- > I would appreciate any relevant response..
- >
- >Feel free to send mail to
- >Internet Address: RSL11@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
-
- Since the moon is not in the Earth's orbital plane, we don't get eclipses
- every 29 days. I don't even think the moon is in the Earth's equatorial
- plane, otherwise we would get eclipses only at or very near equinoxes.
- Perhaps someone will find for us the moon's inclination to the equatorial
- plane in the Astro. Almanac?.
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