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If the moon orbited the earth in exactly the same plane as the earth orbits the sun, we would see a lunar eclipse at every full moon. The orbital plane of the moon around the earth is actually a little bit tilted from the orbital plane of the earth around the sun, so it only occasionally is in the right position for a lunar eclipse. By the same token, solar eclipses would be much more common if the two orbital planes were the same.

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