Why is the earth and moon the exact same size during an eclipse.?

Answer 1

You mean the moon and the sun, which is true
sometimes, but there are also eclipses where
the moon is smaller than the sun, so a small
ring of light is left uncovered (called an annular
eclipse)...

By a stroke of amazing coincidence, both the
moon and the sun are approx 108 times as
far from the earth as their diameter, so they
appear the same size in the sky... 108 is a
mystic number in spirituality, so I doubt if this
is really a coincidence!

Answer 2

I believe you meant to ask why the Moon and Sun are exactly the same size during an eclipse.

Actually, they're not. The Moon's orbit is elliptical, and sometimes it's closer to earth than other times. When the Moon is close to the earth, the Moon covers the entire Sun (even a bit more) and the eclipse is total. But when the Moon is farther away from the earth, it isn't quite large enough to cover the entire Sun; a bit of the Sun shows in a ring around the outside of the Moon. That is called an "annular" (ring-shaped) eclipse.

Answer 3

Gee. I thought that during a solar eclipse the SUN and the moon appear to be approximately the same size. Who's been looking at the earth during an eclipse?

Answer 4

The moon is not the same size as the Earth, it just appears that way because the moon is so far away.

Answer 5

They're not it just seems that way. Earth is always three times larger than the moon.

Answer 6

Just purely random chance that the system worked out that way.

Answer 7

due to refrection of light for rarer and denser medium

Answer 8

Because GOD is the ultimate scientist.