How did the Moon end up with an orbit the perfect distance to cause total eclipses?
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It doesn’t always cover the sun.
Last Saturdays eclipse was not total but the moon was completely in front of the Sun , leaving a nice solid solar ring around the moon (not the bright diamond ring kind you get with a total eclipse but a solid circle of the sun around the shadow of the moon) . I assume that this is an effect of the variable distance between the Earh, the Moon, and the sun.
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