Re: Pull of the Moon

[Alaric Shapli <ashapli@erols.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "frank bliss" <frank@blissnet.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: Pull of the Moon


>  This discussion brought an image of a Cretaceous Lunar Eclipse into  my 
> minds eye.  Since the moon may have been 1/4 larger (ie. 1.25  minutes of 
> angle), it would have periodically covered the suns disc  much more 
> completely and for a somewhat longer period of time (maybe  the same 
> length though because it was moving faster across the sky)  for each 
> eclipse. No annular eclipses in the Meso.  It would have  been quite a 
> scene (and a good one to paint for one of you artists)  of a Mesozoic 
> eclipse putting all thee huge browsers of the day  asleep for an hour in 
> the middle of the day.
> Frank (Rooster) Bliss
> MS Biostratigraphy
> Weston, Wyoming

Just de-lurking for a moment to point out that what you're talking about is 
actually a SOLAR eclipse, not a lunar eclipse.