On Earth, the sun seems about the same size as the moon, so a total solar eclipse leaves just the corona visible. Are there planets with a moon, a moon with a planet, or pairs of moons where such a close match in apparent size makes for near "perfect" eclipses?
This might be a good test for programming skills: you'd need a table of planets and satellites with diameters, distance to sun and each other, and orbital inclination (they might never actually eclipse the sun if a t wrong angle).
2007-03-22
14:04:41
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