Will Australia ever have a solar eclipse?
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Solar eclipses are possible anywhere on the globe. The possibility of having a solar eclipse increases the closer to the equator you are. See this image from the Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/image:total...
Yes. There is no reason they wouldn't have one.
Yes. The next Eclipses will be
1. 2008 Feb 07 Annular 0.965 02m12s Antarctica, e Australia, N. Zealand
[Annular: Antarctica]
2. 2009 Jan 26 Annular 0.928 07m54s s Africa, Antarctica, se Asia, Australia
[Annular: s Indian, Sumatra, Borneo]
I was curious about this the other day too. I like the link below because it has maps. I appears the Norther tips of Northern Australia and Queensland will experience a total solar eclipse on Nov 13, 2012, and an annular eclipse (moon is smaller than the sun, so there is a bright ring of sun around the smaller moon, not just the corona of a total eclipse) on May 10, 2013. The years 2028, 2030, 2037, 2038 are fetaure a total solar eclipse over Australia. I hope the site comes in handy!
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