.COMPLETE SOLAR eclipses possess dazzled folks because opportunity out of thoughts. The very first document of one, protected on a clay tablet discovered at Ugarit, now in Syria, is actually strongly believed coming from its grow older and site to define either an eclipse that occurred in 1375BC or one in 1223BC. Fabulous illustrations for eclipses feature the Sunshine being actually eaten by pet dogs, frogs or dragons. The reality is a lot more prosaic. Eclipses are triggered by the Moon relocating in between Sunshine as well as Planet in such a way that projects a shadow on part of The planet's surface. Why are complete ones, like the one intercrossing part of North America on April 8th, so rare?