The Moon can block the Sun completely during a solar eclipse because the Sun is far, far away. Is it then pure coincidence that the Moon almost completely fits the Sun’s outline, or could we’ve had solar eclipses with a much smaller Moon, thus blocking the sun only very partially?

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It is, like everybody else says, a coincidence. Another solar system coincidence is Saturn´s rings, or at least them existing right now. They might be a short-lived (by astronomical scales phenomena). Two really cool coincidental things in our solar system.