
Originally Posted by
antoniseb
OK, I asked a question that was outside your areas of interest, or was perhaps too difficult.
I'm going to have very limited internet access of the next Nine days, so I'm handing it off to George to ask a question, and get us started again.
BTW, the answer to the above was MKIDs (Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors). Pretty amazing tool compared to the sensors I was familiar with.
Google failed me, but I did try and I do think these babies are pretty amazing.
Given that the Great Eclipse is just ahead, here is an extravaganza set of timely questions that you may not already know and I don't think Google will help. Simple iterations will likely solve it but I think you will like the answer regardless. It's a 2 part question, but 20 tries should be more than enough...maybe.
A) Tell me the most combined number of total and near total eclipses that took place for any given region (~ 250 mile radius) on Earth in a span of 15 years within the last 2000 years.
B) Where is this region?
Bonus questions:
a) What is the average number of years any one spot will see a total eclipse for the northern hemisphere? [400 is too crude]
b) Southern hemisphere?
c) Approx. number of solar eclipses in last 4,000 years.
d) Approx. number of lunar eclipses in last 4,000 years.
Knowing y'all, the "why" to these will just ooze out without me asking.
Last edited by George; 2017-Aug-03 at 02:49 PM.
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