.OVERALL SOLAR eclipses have dazzled people since opportunity out of mind. The very first document of one, preserved on a clay tablet discovered at Ugarit, now in Syria, is actually thought from its own age and also area to describe either an eclipse that occurred in 1375BC or one in 1223BC. Famous explanations for eclipses consist of the Sunlight being actually eaten through dogs, toads or even dragons. The truth is actually much more prosaic. Eclipses are actually triggered by the Moon moving between Sun and also Earth in a manner that throws a shadow on component of Planet's surface. Why are actually complete ones, like the one intercrossing component of The United States on April 8th, thus uncommon?