{"id":81514,"date":"2017-08-21T06:56:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T10:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81514"},"modified":"2017-08-21T11:44:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T15:44:15","slug":"why-does-a-solar-eclipse-move-from-west-to-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81514","title":{"rendered":"<b>Why does a solar eclipse move from west to east?<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why do eclipse tracks move eastward even though the Earth rotates from west to east?<\/h2>\n<p><!--more-->NASA.gov<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Answer:<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Because the Moon moves to the east in its orbit at about 3,400 km\/hour. \u00a0Earth rotates to the east at 1,670 km\/hr at the equator, so the lunar shadow moves to the east at 3,400 \u2013 1,670 = 1,730 km\/hr near the equator. You cannot keep up with the shadow of the eclipse unless you traveled at Mach 1.5.<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/state_capitals_map-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81516\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/state_capitals_map-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/state_capitals_map-copy.jpg 839w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/state_capitals_map-copy-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/state_capitals_map-copy-768x421.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/eclipse2017.nasa.gov\/why-do-eclipse-tracks-move-eastward-even-though-earth-rotates-west-east\">http:\/\/eclipse2017.nasa.gov\/why-do-eclipse-tracks-move-eastward-even-though-earth-rotates-west-east<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do eclipse tracks move eastward even though the Earth rotates from west to east?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}