Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-05-21
C|ENT|STS ARE
PREPARING FOR
ECLIPSE OF sun
Expect to Learn New Facts
When Day Is Turned into
Darkness This Sum-
mer.

| i@hlbIc anu ASIA anu partial III l'''''
eastern America-ls attracting the vide
spread attention of astronomers and
scientists various expeditions being ar
ranged to witness this phenomena In
view of the public interest In the
event, Prof c. G, Abbott, head of the as
Economical branch OF the Smithsonian In
sttution, and recognized authority on
solar Phenomena, gives the following pop
ular account Of the eclipse, and the scien-
tific results sought from such events.
on August 81, 1914, tho moon Will pass
exactly between the earth and the sun,
and There will be total solar eclipse II
will not he observed in America, except as
small partial eclipse at sunrise in the
northern states and Canada, but in Per-
sta Russia and Scandinavia the full effect
win be eaon
Although the moor looks about the
same size rs tho sun, IT % very much
; smaller and nearer The sun is SG5.oC0
miles in diameter and %, 100000 miles away.
while the moon is 2.16} miles in diameter
and 90 00o miles away. On account of the
moons small size compared with the sun
the shadow cast by the moon is cone
and the point Of this cone just barely
reaches the earth.
r In the August oclipse tho diameter Of
'ne cone NJ the earthS surface is only
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