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It is an eclipse and does not happen very often.

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When the Sun passes between the Moon and Earth you have?

You have a problem. When the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth you have a solar eclipse. When the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon you have a lunar eclipse. When the Sun passes between the Moon and the Earth we're all dead, as the Sun would be 93 million miles too close.


When the sun passes between the earth and moon you have what?

The Sun has never passed between the Earth and the Moon, if it did, the Earth would be disintigrated.


When the moon passes between earth and the sun?

Then we see full moons. If the Earth passes PRECISELY between the Sun and the Moon, then we see a lunar eclipse.


What does a solar eclipse not occur every time the moon passes between the sun and earth?

Since the moon's orbit is tilted with respect to the plane of the ecliptic, the earth, moon , and sun are not always in a line when the moon passes between sun and earth.


What is the difference between a solar eclipse and a luner eclapes?

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and Earth, blocking the sun's light. A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth passes between the sun and the moon, causing Earth's shadow to cover the moon.


What is it when Earth passes between the sun and the moon?

Is it an eclipse!


How does the eclips?

A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, blocking the Sun's light and casting a shadow on Earth. A lunar eclipse happens when Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon, causing Earth's shadow to fall on the Moon.


What happens when the moon passess between the sun an earth?

When the moon passes between the Sun and Earth there is a new moon. In a special case where the Sun and Moon are aligned there is an eclipse of the Sun (the moon blocking view of the Sun).


A solar eclipse occurs when passes directly between the sun and Earth?

A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth.


Can there be a lunar ecplicse and solar at the same time?

No, a lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon, casting a shadow on the Moon. A solar eclipse, on the other hand, happens when the Moon comes between the Sun and Earth, blocking the Sun's light. These events cannot occur simultaneously as they involve different alignments of the Sun, Earth, and Moon.


When a moon passes between the sun and the earth which moon phacse is occurring?

New Moon.


What is the blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when earth is directly between the sun and moon?

When earth is directly between the sun and moon, it is a lunar eclipse.when moon is directly between earth and passes across the sun, it is a solar eclipse.