.OVERALL SOLAR eclipses have awed folks considering that time out of mind. The very first file of one, protected on a clay tablet located at Ugarit, now in Syria, is strongly believed coming from its grow older and also site to explain either an eclipse that happened in 1375BC or one in 1223BC. Epic descriptions for eclipses consist of the Sun being actually eaten through dogs, frogs or dragons. The reality is actually much more prosaic. Eclipses are triggered by the Moon relocating in between Sunlight and also The planet in a manner that throws a darkness on part of The planet's surface. Why are actually complete ones, like the one intercrossing aspect of The United States on April 8th, thus uncommon?