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vicky

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What effect does the precession of the Moon's nodes have on eclipses?
 
  A) there is a lunar eclipse every 6 months
  B) there is a solar eclipse every 6 months
  C) the eclipse seasons occur less than 6 months apart
  D) the vernal equinox will be in Aquarius in a few hundred years
  E) there are never two solar eclipses in the same year

Question 2

When are eclipse seasons?
 
  A) in the spring and fall
  B) in the summer and winter
  C) when the nodes of the Moon's orbit are nearly aligned with the Sun
  D) when Earth and the Sun are aligned with one another
  E) during an eclipse



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

C



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again




 

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