.OVERALL SOLAR eclipses possess impressed folks considering that time out of mind. The initial record of one, kept on a clay-based tablet located at Ugarit, currently in Syria, is believed coming from its grow older as well as area to define either an eclipse that took place in 1375BC or one in 1223BC. Legendary explanations for eclipses include the Sun being actually consumed through pets, toads or dragons. The fact is much more prosaic. Eclipses are brought on by the Moon moving between Sunlight as well as The planet in a way that throws a shadow on part of Planet's surface area. Why are total ones, like the one intercrossing aspect of The United States on April 8th, therefore rare?