Solar Eclipse Predicted to Occur on June 21The Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, predicted that the first total solar eclipse of the new millennium will occur on June 21 and will be visible from different areas in southern Africa.The solar eclipse will be visible along a west-to-east line stretching from Angola to Madagascar -- including parts of Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. A partial solar eclipse will be visible from the central and eastern parts of South America, the southern Atlantic Ocean, Africa (excluding a few places in northern Africa) and the western part of the Indian Ocean, according to the Purple Mountain Observatory, affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. A group of Chinese geophysicists and astronomers have left China for Zambia to observe the predicted total solar eclipse, which will begin at 6:37 p.m. (Beijing Time) and ends at 9:30 p.m. (Beijing Time) on June 21. |
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