Why don’t we have solar eclipses every month? Because we don’t deserve them! (Ok no, it’s that the orbital planes of the Earth and moon are skewed slightly relative to each other.)
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Thank you for this. I sheepishly admitted my ignorance about this answer to a retired science teacher next to me in Poplar Bluff, MO during the eclipse.
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