What is the event called when the sun moves between the Earth and the Moon?
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Apocalypse…End of everything….How’d that happen?.....
We’d be burnt/blasted off of the surface far before it (the Sun) got that close.
Hmm?
I thought that you were the astronomer here. The Sun never moves between the Earth and the Moon.
Apocalypse eclipse? .....
I guess you mean a lunar eclipse, which is when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned with the Earth in the middle.
It would mean that the moon and earth no longer orbit one another. The sun would not fit between the earth and the moon now. The moon is on average around 240,000 miles from the earth, and the sun has a diameter approaching 865,000 miles. The moon would have to somehow escape the pull of the earth and be well on its way away from us. And an object with the mass of the sun between us an the moon would pretty much eliminate the moon as a satelite of ours.
Is this a serious question?
Sun – Moon – Earth = Solar Eclipse
Sun – Earth – Moon = Lunar Eclipse
So, theoretically:
Moon – Sun – Earth = Terran Eclipse
But, in reality, that will never happen.
The event that you are wondering about has not happened yet. And I hope that I’m long gone if it ever does.
The distance from the Earth to the Moon is about 250,000 miles. The diameter of the Sun is 869,920 miles.
It is called pigs fly day. Hell freezes over, Earth incinerates.
Next thursday. Better bring some sunscreen.
The death of earth, about five billion years from now
Science has established that this cannot happen.
Have you been talking to the flat earthers that have been trolling my Facebook groups?
The end of life as we know it.
Pack the sun factor 1000000000. Hahaha. No.
GAs to the scientific answers. And to @ragingloli, of course.
In simple words, there is no way for the moon to get on the other side of the sun from us. Not while there’s anything left of the moon.
I believe it’s called The Great AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH.
Ouchy day. But I think you are mentioning an eclipse. When the moon travels between the sun and the Earth.
I’m glad people are seeing this as a joke. It was a joke, people. I was just curious to see if people were paying attention. :-)
I like @dappled_leaves answer the best.
It seems conceivable that once the sun exhausts its hydrogen supply and starts expanding, there could be a point where its leading edge envelopes the moon before it does the earth.
During that time, before the sun vaporizes the moon, that part of the sun would be between the earth and the moon. However, given the present knowledge of astrophysics, it seems to be empirically impossible for the entire sun to ever be in that position.
I guess another word for it could be the heliocaust.*
*Absolutely not intended to trivialize the Holocaust.
I suppose that when the anunaki return with nibiru this time if it passes just right the moon could be ejected from earth orbit and into a solar orbit where at certain points in its new orbit it would be at the opposite side of the sun from the earth.
A solar flare ejects bits of the sun into the space between the earth and the moon.
It’s called “A Huge Tube of SPF 110.”
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