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Author Question: We get a new and full moon every month. Why don't we get two eclipses every month? What will be ... (Read 24 times)

nmorano1

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We get a new and full moon every month. Why don't we get two eclipses every month?
 
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Centaurus A is the closest lobe radio galaxy, and may be a collision between a spiral and an elliptical galaxy.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

The Moon's orbit is tilted 5.2 degrees to the Earth's orbit (the ecliptic), and the disks of the Sun and Moon are only about .5 degrees wide. Most months the new and full moon pass too far from the ecliptic for the Earth's and Moon's shadows to make eclipses occur.

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Excellent

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