Solar eclipse of March 16, 581 BC Chr.
| Solar eclipse of March 16, 581 BC Chr. | |
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| classification | |
| Type | Ring-shaped |
| area | Northeast Africa , Arabian Peninsula , Central Asia , Russia Annular: Chad , Sudan , Ethiopia , Saudi Arabia , Iran , Afghanistan , Kazakhstan , Russia |
| Saros cycle | 59 (26 of 72) |
| Gamma value | 0.6657 |
| Greatest eclipse | |
| Duration | 3 minutes 34 seconds |
| place | Afghanistan |
| location | 31 ° 54 ′ N , 61 ° 18 ′ E |
| size | 0.9631 |
The solar eclipse of March 16, 581 BC. BC was an annular solar eclipse that was visible in northern Africa and Asia .
description
The central shadow area began in present-day Chad and ran eastward via Sudan and Ethiopia across the southeastern area of the Arabian Peninsula. He then crossed Iran, the Caucasus states of Afghanistan, Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan , Kyrgyzstan and reached Russian territory via Kazakhstan. The eclipse finally ended in northern Siberia , in the mouth of the Jana . (As is customary in astronomy, the given NASA source calculates a certain number of years from our time and comes to the year -580. As the non-historical year 0 is included in it, the historical date 581 BC belongs to it. Chr.)
Historical remarks
This solar eclipse was discussed as a possible candidate for the predicted solar eclipse by Thales of Miletus . However, it is generally believed that Thales caused the solar eclipse of May 28, 585 BC. . BC had predicted, because, first, the by Pliny made time indication of the fourth year of the 48th Olympiad in 585/584 BC. Back and secondly reported Herodotus , Thales has announced that the day would become night, and that also occurred as was what when in Asia Minor only partial as the v of 16 March 581 eclipse. Would not have made sense.
Individual evidence
- ^ Solar eclipse of March 16, 581 BC. Chr. ( English ) NASA
- ↑ Dmitri Panchenko: Thales's Prediction of a Solar Eclipse. In: Journal for the History of Astronomy. Volume 25, 1994, pp. 275-288, bibcode : 1994JHA .... 25..275P
- ↑ Miguel Querejeta: On the Eclipse of Thales, Cycles and Probabilities , Culture And Cosmos, Volume 15, no. 1, pages 5-16