it always occurs as a set with 1 solar eclipse and 1 lunar eclipse followed 6 months later with another set. one doesnt occur more than the other. it usually totals 4 a year but sometimes if beginning early enough there can be a total of 6 for that year.
lunar eclipse.
Solar eclipses are more common than lunar eclipses.
A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing behind the earth in relation to the sun. Lunar eclipses are more common than solar eclipses.
A solar eclipse.
If there is a total lunar eclipse, everybody sees it as total. If there is a total solar eclipse, only people in a small part of Earth see it as total - most will see it as a partial eclipse, or not at all.
because it acres more often
There is a solar eclipse when the moon blocks the sun from the Earth. A lunar eclipse is when the earth block the sun from the moon.
eclipse is of two kinds- solar eclipse and lunar eclipse
lunar
Eclipses of 2013: --------------------- April 25 - partial lunar eclipse May 10 - annular solar eclipse May 25 - penumbral lunar eclipse October 18 - penumbral lunar eclipse November 3 - hybrid solar eclipse
Both types of eclipse occur with identical frequency. during the 100 years of the 20th Century, there were 228 solar eclipses and 229 lunar ones.
the sun is blocked out in a solar eclipse so it is more noticeable than a lunar eclipse where only the moon is blocked out