A fifth solar eclipse during a calendar year is possible because part of a third eclipse season may occur at the beginning of January or at the end of December.
He's spared because of a freak solar eclipse.
Re "Homecoming of Odysseus May Have Been in Eclipse" (June 24): Constantino Baikouzis and Marcelo O. Magnasco concede that for Homer to know about the eclipse "seems unlikely because it would entail the transmission through oral tradition of information about an eclipse occurring maybe five centuries before".
"The sun's brightness was greatly turned down because of the eclipse and that makes the contrast easier.
In none of these was an eclipse detected.
While many people in the U.S. probably won't be paying attention to the event because of a teeny tiny solar eclipse, I'm sure many of you aren't on the East Coast.
Thus, in an eclipse of the Sun, the regions within the umbra experience a total eclipse and those within the penumbra, partial eclipse.
Thirteen pregnant teenagers is an eclipse of sun, moon, earth".
The other two models, Jar and Eclipse, look similarly weird, and feature half of a jar or an eclipse.
Millions of Hindus, hands clasped in prayer, plunged into the icy Ganges River today hoping to wash away their sins at the opening of a festival that falls every 12 years -- and is especially auspicious on this day because of the lunar eclipse.
