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Old 25-10-2007, 08:08 PM
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you're right about it moving away slowly - shortly (in astro terms) the perfect solar eclipses we see will be a thing of the past as the moon will be smaller than the sun. I think today is the very small window where the sun and moon are the same size as viewed from Earth, when many years either side of present day the sizes did not match up at all, thanks for the responses
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