This is an addendum to the last video I made, which was a response to a GLOBEBUSTERS video (links below).
I had been playing around with the math behind solar eclipses, and after publishing the video, I continued to dick around with the math. This is all strictly as a layman attempting to see if the predicted diameter of the shadow cast by the Moon onto the Earth's surface corresponds to the coming 2017 total solar eclipse. That eclipse is expected to have a path width of about 71 miles.
In the original video, I considered only apogee-aphelion and perigee-perihelion eclipses. The more extreme cases, however, are apogee-perihelion and perigee-aphelion, with the maximum shadow size of about 134 miles being produced under perigee-aphelion conditions.
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Original Response Video: • GLOBEBUSTER'S Wonky Fl...
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