Four More Eclipses this Century: Eat well, get enough sleep and exercise, and you might see four more solar eclipses this century.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Eat well, get enough sleep and exercise, and you might see four more solar eclipses this century.

https://www.space.com/37792-upcoming-solar-eclipses-after-2017.html

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

On a radio report this morning it was said the moon is slowly receding from the earth, i.e. its orbit is enlarging. So at some point the moon will not cover much of the sun. It was said to be about 1 1/2 inch per year. Might have the year part wrong as I was only half listening. Which brings me to asteroids. Do many of them hit the moon - what if a really big one bump the moon into a very different orbit. Would we be planning photographic events for, say, North Star eclipses.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

John_F wrote:

On a radio report this morning it was said the moon is slowly receding from the earth, i.e. its orbit is enlarging. So at some point the moon will not cover much of the sun. It was said to be about 1 1/2 inch per year. Might have the year part wrong as I was only half listening. Which brings me to asteroids. Do many of them hit the moon - what if a really big one bump the moon into a very different orbit. Would we be planning photographic events for, say, North Star eclipses.

The sun is 400 times farther from the earth than the moon, and the moon is 400 times smaller than the sun. They coincide perfectly, but that won't last forever. The moon used to be a lot closer to the earth, and the earth used to spin a lot faster. The only constant is change.

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

jerryc41 wrote:

Eat well, get enough sleep and exercise, and you might see four more solar eclipses this century.

I'll try to hang on but not making any promises.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

EdJ0307 wrote:

I'll try to hang on but not making any promises.

That's all we can do. I'll bet you anything that the eclipse in 2099 will look very similar to the one we are having next week.

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

jerryc41 wrote:

That's all we can do. I'll bet you anything that the eclipse in 2099 will look very similar to the one we are having next week.

I bet you're right.