.TOTAL SOLAR eclipses possess dazzled people due to the fact that opportunity out of thoughts. The very first record of one, maintained on a clay-based tablet located at Ugarit, now in Syria, is actually thought coming from its grow older and also site to explain either an eclipse that took place in 1375BC or one in 1223BC. Famous descriptions for eclipses feature the Sun being consumed through pet dogs, toads or monsters. The truth is more prosaic. Eclipses are actually caused by the Moon relocating between Sunlight as well as Planet in a manner that projects a shade on component of Planet's surface. Why are actually overall ones, like the one crossing component of The United States and Canada on April 8th, thus rare?