.OVERALL SOLAR eclipses possess impressed folks because opportunity out of mind. The initial document of one, protected on a clay-based tablet found at Ugarit, now in Syria, is actually believed from its own grow older as well as place to explain either an eclipse that occurred in 1375BC or even one in 1223BC. Epic illustrations for eclipses feature the Sunlight being consumed through dogs, frogs or monsters. The fact is actually much more prosaic. Eclipses are actually brought on by the Moon moving in between Sun and Earth in a manner that throws a shadow on portion of The planet's surface. Why are complete ones, like the one crossing portion of The United States on April 8th, thus uncommon?