When was the first solar exclipse?
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Assuming you mean an historically recorded eclipse, and not the dumb question the previous answerers assumed, Fred Espenak and Jan Meeus just published a book which lists every solar eclipse from 2000 BC to 3000 AD, with maps showing where and when visible. Email on this book and its availability should go to help@sti.nasa.gov. The earliest definitely dated eclipse was in the 580s BC, but there are earlier ones where the info is sufficiently ambiguous to make it hard to tell which of two or more eclipses is meant.
about the same time as the moon was invented .
Lol. you're kidding right? That was probably ten minutes after the moon was formed.billions of years ago.
assuming when the moon first came into existence, it was in the same orbit we see it in today, and in the same shape it is in now, and it was rotating around earth at the same speed it is rotating around now, the first eclipse would have been between few minutes and a year or so from that time.
When the Moon was detached fron the Earth.
4.5 billion years ago. It was a Saturday.
The first one ever? year: along time ago, and place: in space?
Around the time to moon came into being ;) :P
Waaaaaaaaaaay before there was any definition of date or place or, for that matter, life. It was about 3,900,000,000 years ago, when the Moon was blasted out of the Earth by collision with a Mars-sized planetoid.
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