SAN ANTONIO - Saturday, the region will experience the first of two amazing solar eclipses. Tomorrow’s eclipse is known as the “Ring of Fire,” eclipse. I talked
Saturday, the region will experience the first of two amazing solar eclipses. Tomorrow’s eclipse is known as the “Ring of Fire,” eclipse. I talked with Angela Speck, astronomer and researcher at UTSA about the odds of getting both eclipses here.
We get an eclipse somewhere on the planet every six months," said Dr. Angela Speck, chair, UTSA Department of Physics and Astronomy. "Even though we think of eclipses as being quite rare, there is one somewhere on the planet every six months. The last time there was a coincidence like this, we had two together, one after the other, anywhere on the planet was 18 years ago. And that was over Central Libya. But it's not as uncommon as you think.
"What you have is something that we can predict out for centuries, millennia. We can we can go back centuries or millennia and work out exactly where they were, and what time of day they happened and everything," said Dr. Speck. "So as long as you understand and know how long it takes things to move around, you can figure out exactly when the alignment is going to be.
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