.COMPLETE SOLAR eclipses possess impressed individuals because time out of mind. The initial file of one, maintained on a clay tablet computer located at Ugarit, now in Syria, is actually believed from its age and also place to define either an eclipse that occurred in 1375BC or even one in 1223BC. Fabulous illustrations for eclipses feature the Sunlight being actually eaten through pets, frogs or even dragons. The fact is extra prosaic. Eclipses are actually brought on by the Moon moving between Sun and Earth in such a way that throws a shadow on part of The planet's surface area. Why are overall ones, like the one crossing aspect of The United States on April 8th, so unusual?