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| | Scientists are gathering with tourists the world over to take in the first total eclipse of the sun in years. The eclipse will be a solar show that will sweep northeast, beginning in Brazil and heading to Mongolia. The sun will be blotted out across large swathes of the world's poorest lands. The last such eclipse of the sun was in November of 2003. It was visible from most of Antarctica, according to Alex Young who is a NASA scientist involved in solar research. The eclipse will block the sun over some very highly populated areas, including West Africa. NASA has advised that it won't be visible from the United States. The moon is expected to first begin blocking out the sun during the morning hours in Brazil before the path of greatest blockage migrates to Africa, then onward to Turkey and finally up towards and into Mongolia. The eclipse will fade out with the sunset at that location. With the eclipse, superstition will follow around the world, as it has for generations and generations. One Indian newspaper continued the superstitions and advised pregnant women not to go outside during the eclipse to avoid having a blind baby or one with a cleft lip. Another of the superstitions that is making the rounds sets forth that food cooked before the eclipse should be thrown out afterward because it will be impure. Another sets forth that those who are holding a knife or ax during the eclipse will cut themselves, as was reported in the Hindustan Times. |
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