.COMPLETE SOLAR eclipses possess impressed people given that opportunity out of mind. The 1st record of one, kept on a clay-based tablet found at Ugarit, currently in Syria, is actually believed from its age and also site to define either an eclipse that took place in 1375BC or even one in 1223BC. Epic descriptions for eclipses consist of the Sun being consumed by canines, frogs or even monsters. The reality is actually even more prosaic. Eclipses are actually dued to the Moon moving in between Sunlight and also Earth in a way that throws a shade on component of Planet's surface area. Why are actually complete ones, like the one intercrossing component of North America on April 8th, therefore uncommon?