{"id":10169,"date":"2011-09-24T10:46:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T10:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/09\/24\/why-isnt-there-a-lunar-eclipse\/"},"modified":"2011-09-24T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T10:46:46","slug":"why-isnt-there-a-lunar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/24\/why-isnt-there-a-lunar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Why isn&#8217;t there a lunar eclipse every month?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, for that matter, a solar eclipse?  If the moon is going around the earth once a month shouldn&#8217;t the moon&#8217;s shadow fall on the earth (a solar eclipse) every month, and the earth&#8217;s shadow fall on the moon (a lunar eclipse) once a month?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nYes, it should,and all the planets and moons and stuff should all be on the same flat plane with the sun in the &#8220;middle.&#8221;  Someday astronomers will find a solar system with several planets and they&#8217;ll name it something special because it will be very rare.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this came up in conversation and the conversation led to some googling around and this nice video that explains it all in very simple terms came up:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xwGs8_otT64\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, for that matter, a solar eclipse? If the moon is going around the earth once a month shouldn&#8217;t the moon&#8217;s shadow fall on the earth (a solar eclipse) every month, and the earth&#8217;s shadow fall on the moon (a lunar eclipse) once a month?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2E1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}