What Conditions Must Exist For A Solar Eclipse To Occur?

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What Conditions Must Exist For A Solar Eclipse To Occur?

o occur? - The phase of the Moon must be new and the Moon must be passing through Earth's orbital plane
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The two points at which the Moon's orbit crosses the Earth's orbital plane are called the nodes of the Moon's orbit. So another way to state the conditions for a solar eclipse is that (1) it must be new moon, and (2) the Moon must be at or quite near one of the nodes of its orbit.

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