5/20/2012...right now!
The 2009 solar eclipse was a total solar eclipse, which occurs roughly every 18 months somewhere on Earth. However, the next total solar eclipse visible from the same location typically takes much longer, often hundreds of years.
On average, a total solar eclipse will occur in any given location on Earth once every 375 years. Partial solar eclipses happen more frequently, but the exact frequency can vary depending on the specific region. The last total solar eclipse visible in Britain was in 1999, and the next one will not be until 2090.
a solar and lunar eclipse are similar because the Moon sort of a phase and only happens every thousand years. and is made of cheese
every 50 years
it varies between years
at least 2 years until the next eclipse.
There is an annual solar eclipse expected in early May, 2012, visible primarily from the pacific ocean.
We would have what is called a "Total Solar Eclipse." The Most recent Total Solar Eclipse happened in 1487. The Next Total Solar Eclipse will happen in 2079. An interval of approx. 601 years. But for lack of better explanation, we would have a solar eclipse that we get annually.
Usually there are one or two (more commonly two) solar eclipses every year. However, that doesn't mean the next eclipse will be visible wherever you happen to live.
Both solar and lunar eclipses generally occur 2 times a year. Some years you will have fewer, or more. For example, there will be NO solar eclipses at all during 2011! The maximum possible number of solar or lunar eclipses per year is five.
Over a period of a number of years, the numbers of both kinds are identical.During the 100 years of the 20th Century, there were 228 solar eclipses and229 lunar ones.But ... when a lunar eclipse does happen, you have a much greater chanceof seeing it than you have of seeing a solar eclipse when it happens.
somebody had the wrong time.