.TOTAL SOLAR eclipses have blown away people considering that opportunity out of mind. The first document of one, kept on a clay-based tablet computer discovered at Ugarit, right now in Syria, is actually felt from its grow older as well as place to define either an eclipse that occurred in 1375BC or one in 1223BC. Famous illustrations for eclipses feature the Sunlight being eaten by canines, toads or dragons. The reality is actually even more prosaic. Eclipses are triggered by the Moon moving in between Sunshine and Planet in a way that casts a shade on part of Planet's surface area. Why are actually total ones, like the one crossing part of North America on April 8th, therefore uncommon?