Why are lunar eclipses more common than a solar eclipse?

Answer 1

They're not. During the 20th Century, there were 228 solar eclipses and 229 lunar ones, which is

about as equal as you can get.

But lunar eclipses are visible over a wider area. So if you stay in one place, you're

more likely to see lunar eclipses more often than solar ones.

Answer 2

The simplest answer is that lunar eclipses and solar eclipses happen with exactly the same frequency : either the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun (solar eclipse) or the Earth is between the Moon and the Sun (lunar eclipse). However, the shadow of the Moon is smaller than the shadow of the Earth, so the chance of Earth's shadow falling on the Moon is greater than the reverse. Seldom does the distance and alignment of either provide more than a partial eclipse. Perfect alignment causes a lunar eclipse, nonperfect alignment is an ordinary full moon. Perfect alignment can cause a solar eclipse, nonperfect is an ordinary new moon.

Answer 3

Because the path of totality for a lunar eclipse is bigger. The Earth's shadow is much larger than the moon. As such, you have to travel great distances to view a solar eclipse since it is only visible along a narrow stretch of the Earth's surface. A Lunar eclipse is visible at any location on the night side of the Earth.

Answer 4

They're not. During the 20th Century, there were 228 solar eclipses and 229 lunar ones, which is

about as equal as you can get.

But lunar eclipses are visible over a wider area. So if you stay in one place, you're

more likely to see lunar eclipses more often than solar ones.

Answer 5

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.

For an observer stuck in one place, however, his observation of a lunar eclipse is more common.

That's because a solar eclipse is visible only within a relatively narrow strip of the Earth's surface,

whereas a lunar eclipse is visible from the entire night side of the Earth, and for the entire time

that it's in progress.

Answer 6

Because a lunar eclipse happens on the moon, and can be seen by anybody

who can see the moon, meaning anybody on the night half of the Earth.

But a solar eclipse happns on the Earth's surface, and your location makes a

big difference in how it looks to you, and whether you can even see it at all.

Over a period of several years, both kinds of eclipse occur in identical numbers.

Answer 7

Because the moon revolves around the earth faster than the Earth revolves around the sun.