rnlunatic
Does the moon indeed cover the whole sun during an eclipse or is it just a myth?
Solar eclipse
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crazyman2
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No it just happens to look that size from Planet Earth
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Zaphod
Replied to: No it just happens to look that size from Planet Earth...
It happens to be so that the sun is 400 times distant from the moon as the Moon is from the earth and the sizes both bodies are 1:400 so it just happens to be so