Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many astronomers, the most precious moments in the stream of time are the fleeting minutes and seconds of a total solar eclipse, during which they must make their photographs and observations. It is theoretically possible for an occultation of the sun by the moon to last as long as 7 min. 30 sec., but most are several minutes shorter than that. Last year's June eclipse, for example, whose shadow path across Asia was studded with astronomers' observation camps (TIME, June 22), lasted only 2 min. 31½ sec. at maximum. There was a tragic irony about...
...average about once every 18 months somewhere on earth. Any given spot should have one once every 360 years. The size of the shadow and hence the rapidity with which it passes a given point vary because, the earth's orbit around the sun and the moon's orbit around the earth being elliptical, the earth-sun and earth-moon distances vary. For a long eclipse, the sun must be near its maximum swing of over 94,000,000 miles (mean distance: 92,900,000 mi.) and the moon near its minimum distance of 218,000 miles (mean...
From Canton Island in mid-Pacific short wave broadcasts came at noon and at 3 PM Boston time. At 6 PM a third. broadcast came from the coast of Peru. The sun was blotted out by the moon for the longest time at a landless point in the Pacific...
Director Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum will open these displays on June 8. On that day, far out over the Pacific, the moon will eclipse the sun for the longest period (7 min. 4 sec.) in 1,200 years. It is also the second Tuesday in June, the most popular day in the year for committing suicide...
BLOOD ON THE MOON-Linton Wells- Houghton Mifflin ($3). Autobiography of an ex-Hearst foreign correspondent whose tales of wars, revolutions, ingenious out-wittings of the world's great clip along like an oldtime movie serial...