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Fiji expected to experience partial solar eclipse

Fiji expected to experience partial solar eclipse

By fijivillage.com
11/07/2010
Fiji is expected to experience a partial solar eclipse starting from around 5:15 this afternoon.

The NASA Website confirmed that there will be a total solar eclipse in the South Pacific region with French Polynesia falling directly in the path of the total eclipse.

It said that on Sunday, July 11th, the new Moon will pass directly in front of the sun, producing a total eclipse over the South Pacific and the path of totality stretches across more than a thousand miles of ocean, making landfall in the Cook Islands, Easter Island, a number of French Polynesian atolls, and the southern tip of South America.

Hundreds of Scientists and photographers from around the world have flocked in numbers to the Cook Islands to experience this phenomenon.

Weather permitting the partial eclipse will be visible in Fiji starting at around 5:15pm and finishes at around 5:45pm.


Story by:
Roneel Lal
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