A "monster" solar eclipse will plunge Asia into darkness
The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century will plunge China and India, the two most populous countries on the planet, into the dark on Wednesday, where this celestial phenomenon is arousing enthusiasm.
On July 22, from 02:53 a.m. Belgian time, night will fall shortly after sunrise over the state of Gujarat (west), then inside a corridor 15.000 kilometers long and 200 km long. wide, crossing India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Burma, China and to the southern Japanese islands of Ryukyu. "It's the longest (eclipse) of the century. None of us will live long enough to see another like this," enthuses Federico Borgmeyer, director of the specialist German travel agency Eclipse City . The Sun will be completely masked by the Moon for six minutes and 39 seconds in a sparsely populated area of the Pacific, a time record that will not be broken until the year 2132. Darkness will last less in India (three to four minutes) ) and the Shanghai megalopolis (about five minutes). (HIE)
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