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June, 2012:

June Current Event: Recent “Smiling” Solar Eclipse

 

 

Solar eclipse picture: a partial eclipse over the Philippines in 2012

I found an article about a ‘smiling’ solar eclipse over Gumaca in Philippines on Monday morning on National Geographic News.

A Solar Eclipse turns the disk of the sun into a wide orange grin over Gumaca in the Philippines on Monday morning, . Although the sun is only little covered in this picture, the so-called annular eclipse went on to create a “ring of fire” for sky-watchers in parts of Asia and the U.S. in the west.

I thought this was an WOW, a smiling solar eclipse is pretty cool and at first I had a glimpse of this, this looked so much like I saw in the movie “Alice in Wonderland”, the Cheshire cat that always smiles and disappears and fades in the air with a smile that looked and blended with the moon that exactly is like this smiling solar eclipse if you look closely. This was an very interesting article and it’s unusual for a solar eclipse to look like a smile. I chose this because I thought this is an really unusual article and it’s rare to see a solar eclipse like this.  I had a few questions:

  • Is this the first Smiling Solar Eclipse that Earth has encountered?
  • What did the people on Earth think about this?
  • Is it REALLY true it was a Smiling solar Eclipse? ( You Never Know, Photoshop)
  • Did this event get around the world?

 

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