Total Lunar Eclipse on January 10 PredictedThe total lunar eclipse, the first such phenomenon in the new century, will take place in the early morning of January 10.The forecast was made by the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is based in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. The total lunar eclipse can be viewed from the northeastern part of North America, eastern part of South America, the Arctic Ocean, Africa, Europe, Asia, the Oceania, the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and western part of the Pacific, said He Yunan, a research fellow with the observatory. The phenomenon will last for three hours and 17 minutes, according to He. |
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