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THE
‘X’ CHRONICLES NEWSPAPER
Where Fact Is Fiction and Fiction Is Reality - Publishing Since 1990
Vol. 35, No. 04 ISSN 1499-8599 A REL-MAR McConnell Media Company Publication - Digital Version April 2024
A
Total Eclipse
of the
Sun on
Monday,
April 8, 2024
A Total Eclipse solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's the nearby city of Torreón, Coahuila.
apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's,
of the Sun - blocking all direct sunlight, turning day This eclipse will be the first total solar
Monday, into darkness. Totality occurs only in a eclipse to be visible in the provinces of
narrow path across Earth's surface, with Canada since February 26, 1979, the first
April 8, 2024 the partial solar eclipse visible over a in Mexico since July 11, 1991, and the
surrounding region thousands of first in the U.S. since August 21, 2017. It
A total solar eclipse will take place at the kilometres wide. will be the only total solar eclipse in the
Moon's ascending node on Monday, April 21st century where totality will be visible
8, 2024, visible across North America Occurring only one day after perigee in Mexico, the United States, and
and dubbed the Great North American (perigee on Sunday, April 7, 2024), the Canada. It will also be the last total solar
Eclipse (also Great American Total Solar Moon's apparent diameter will be 5.5% eclipse visible in the Contiguous United
Eclipse and Great American Eclipse) by larger than average. With a magnitude of States until August 23, 2044.
some of the media. A solar eclipse occurs 1.0566, its longest duration of totality
when the Moon passes between Earth and will be of 4 minutes and 28.13 seconds The final solar eclipse of the year will
the Sun, thereby obscuring the image of near the Mexican town of Nazas, occur six months later, on October 2,
the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total Durango, (about 4 mi (6 km) north), and
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