Solar Eclipse 2009 Tell us what you know bout this INCREDIBLE PHENOMENA, ending of the earth!!??

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There are four types of solar eclipses:

A total eclipse occurs when the Sun is completely obscured by the Moon. The intensely bright disk of the Sun is replaced by the dark silhouette of the Moon, and the much fainter corona is visible. During any one eclipse, totality is visible only from at most a narrow track on the surface of the Earth.
An annular eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are exactly in line, but the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. Hence the Sun appears as a very bright ring, or annulus, surrounding the outline of the Moon.
A hybrid eclipse is intermediate between a total and annular eclipse. At some points on the surface of the Earth it is visible as a total eclipse, whereas at others it is annular. Hybrid eclipses are rather rare.
A partial eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are not exactly in line, and the Moon only partially obscures the Sun. This phenomenon can usually be seen from a large part of the Earth outside of the track of an annular or total eclipse. However, some eclipses can only be seen as a partial eclipse, because the umbra never intersects the Earth's surface.
The match between the apparent sizes of the Sun and Moon during a total eclipse is a coincidence. The Sun's distance from the Earth is about 400 times the Moon's distance, and the Sun's diameter is about 400 times the Moon's diameter. Because these ratios are approximately the same, the sizes of the Sun and the Moon as seen from Earth appear to be approximately the same: about 0.5 degree of arc in angular measure.

Because the Moon's orbit around the Earth is an ellipse, as is the Earth's orbit around the Sun, the apparent sizes of the Sun and Moon vary.[1][2] The magnitude of an eclipse is the ratio of the apparent size of the Moon to the apparent size of the Sun during an eclipse. An eclipse when the Moon is near its closest distance from the Earth (i.e., near its perigee) can be a total eclipse because the Moon will appear to be large enough to cover completely the Sun's bright disk, or photosphere; a total eclipse has a magnitude greater than 1. Conversely, an eclipse when the Moon is near its farthest distance from the Earth (i.e., near its apogee) can only be an annular eclipse because the Moon will appear to be slightly smaller than the Sun; the magnitude of an annular eclipse is less than 1. Slightly more solar eclipses are annular than total because, on average, the Moon lies too far from Earth to cover the Sun completely. A hybrid eclipse occurs when the magnitude of an eclipse is very close to 1: the eclipse will appear to be total at some locations on Earth and annular at other locations.[3]

The Earth's orbit around the Sun is also elliptical, so the Earth's distance from the Sun varies throughout the year. This also affects the apparent sizes of the Sun and Moon, but not so much as the Moon's varying distance from the Earth. When the Earth approaches its farthest distance from the Sun (the aphelion) in July, this tends to favor a total eclipse. As the Earth approaches its closest distance from the Sun (the perihelion) in January, this tends to favor an annular eclipse.

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[thomascars1]

im a eclipse lover

[Musicboxplayer]

Eclipse Is Happening Right Now ;) Hahaaa

[nick quaranta]

It was so scary. I didn't know what was happing

[521lolz]

the sad moment when you type eclipse and the terrible film comes up instead of this 

[iLOVENATURE2011]

i love eclipse! =) it is such a wonderful experience to witness it...

[fefe C.]

my friend and i were waching tv when i got a call from a friend and she siad go outside and around the moon we saw a circle it is happening right now in piage,bastrop, texas

[James Ranels]

its 2012 and the world has not ended yet so live life normally and not in fear

[yaniv133]

1:57 is that me or it looks like the Magen David star?!

[gamesbok]

In 564 BC the Lydians fought the Persians, and there came an eclipse. They all said, 'Oh the Gods are angry at us. We must stop our war and seek peace. Just a minute, it's brightening up again., and the Persians sacked Lydia.

[Andy Nguyen]

The moon blocks out the sun leaving a shadow on earth and as it turns into a total eclipse it only stay like that for a few min so the sun return and everything is back to normal

[DiegoDCvids]

awesome Eclipse

[SOLOMONDBYRD]

its awesome thumbs up