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August 17th, 2008 August 17th, 2008 Posted in Electromagnetism, Heat, Mechanics, WavesNo Comments
It’s happening right now. It’s a metonic cycle eclipse, meaning the last time the EXACT eclipse happened on Aug 6th 1990 at 1412hrs UTC time (greatest eclipse). The Metonic cycle repeats nearly exactly every 19 years. The eclipse belongs to Saros series 138, and is the 29th of 83 lunar eclipses in the series.
It gets reddish due to the dispersion of sunlight
