What kind of eclipse do you have when the moon is between the sun and earth?

Answer 1

I think this will never happen as the sun is the centre of our universe.So The Sun won't pass between the earth and the moon.

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It may be that this will never happen, but in any case, those who advocate that the Sun is the centre of the universe (Heliocentric) are just as wrong as those who thought that the Earth is at the centre of the universe (Geocentric). If it were true that the Sun was a the centre of the universe, don't you think that our own galaxy, the Milky Way, should be the first (collective) body in space to revolve around the Sun? And yet, our Sun is merely located on one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way, at the edge of the galaxy. We're (the Solar System) revolving around the centre of the galaxy, and not the galaxy revolving around the Sun. Hardly the centre of the universe.

In any case... I might be wrong about this, but I believe eclipses occur because a celestial body has blocked the light coming/reflected from another celestial body. If the sun were to pass between the Moon and the Earth, there probably wouldn't be any eclipse at all.

An interesting point is whether the Moon would still be the Earth's moon if an object the size of the Sun came between the Earth and the Moon. Over such a huge distance, the Earth's gravitational would cease to have any hold over the Moon and it would probably go sailing off into space as some giant, over-sized asteroid.

Answer 2

New moon. When the moon is betwixt earth and sun, it lies in shadow, as the side of the moon embracing the sunlight is opposite us. The moon becomes nearly invisible during this part of its monthly orbit about the earth.

Answer 3

It's always called the New Moon.

And, if the line-up happens to be exactly in line, close enough so that the tip of the moon's shadow

falls on the earth's surface, then that's a solar eclipse.

Answer 4

It is called a new moon (tiny part or no part of the Moon illuminated). If the Moon is directly between the Earth and Sun, it can cause a solar eclipse.

Answer 5

'New Moon', and sometimes 'solar eclipse' for a short time.

(It's an example of what astronomers call syzygy. I'm not kidding.)

Answer 6

That is a solar eclipse; the sun is 'eclipsed' by the moon.

Answer 7

When a planet (or the moon) moves between the Sun and Earth, blocking out sunlight for an extended time period, it is called an eclipse.

Answer 8

Solar Eclipse occurs when the moon is between Earth and the Sun

Answer 9

That would be an eclipse.

Answer 10

A Solar Eclipse.