.TOTAL SOLAR eclipses have blown away people since time out of mind. The very first record of one, maintained on a clay-based tablet computer found at Ugarit, currently in Syria, is believed coming from its own age and place to describe either an eclipse that occurred in 1375BC or one in 1223BC. Epic explanations for eclipses consist of the Sunshine being actually consumed through pet dogs, toads or even monsters. The truth is extra prosaic. Eclipses are actually triggered by the Moon moving in between Sunlight and also The planet in a manner that projects a darkness on part of Planet's surface area. Why are total ones, like the one intercrossing part of The United States on April 8th, therefore uncommon?