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    3 months ago

    It’s also an incredible coincidence (or otherwise, depending on your beliefs) how the distance and size of the two bodies matches perfectly for the total eclipse to be a thing at all.

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      93 months ago

      Technically it would be fine for the moon to be bigger or closer and you’d still get a total eclipse.

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        Sure, but if the moon was much bigger you wouldn’t be able to see the Sun’s corona. Also, life as we know it wouldn’t be possible, but that’s neither here nor there.