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In article <1993Jan21.230333.46626@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> christos@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>Hello there,
>
>	I have a question concerning the solar eclipse.
>1. Is the moon rotating around the earth in a single plane sothat every 29 days
>it comes in between the sun and the earth? If that is the case different places
>of the earth should have solar eclipse every 29 days(period of the ratatioon of
>the moon around the earth).
>
>	I would appreciate any relevant response..
>
>Feel free to send mail to 
>Internet Address: RSL11@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu

Since the moon is not in the Earth's orbital plane, we don't get eclipses
every 29 days.  I don't even think the moon is in the Earth's equatorial
plane, otherwise we would get eclipses only at or very near equinoxes.
Perhaps someone will find for us the moon's inclination to the equatorial
plane in the Astro. Almanac?.
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