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Letter: Moonshadows

Published 23 February 2011

From Anthony Burns

“Tales from an alternate Earth” (22 January, p 38) made fascinating reading, especially the scenario of our planet having two moons. One consequence of this, not mentioned in the article, is the variety of different eclipses that could occur. As well as the usual solar and lunar eclipses, we might be treated to spectacular displays in which one moon occults the other, or casts its shadow on it.

Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK

Issue no. 2801 published 26 February 2011

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