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Top 10 Lunar Eclipse Facts
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 07:00 am ET
13 May 2003
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7) Stonehenge may have predicted eclipses
The mysterious arrangement of boulders in England has long been associated
with celestial meaning. But scientists have struggled to figure out what the
meaning was for the folks who erected the rocks about 3,500 years ago.
One purpose may have been to predict lunar eclipses.
In the year 2000, a researcher
who had been studying Stonehenge for two decades stumbled upon the observation
that if a person placed stone markers at strategic locations atop 19 columns
in the array, a known 47-month cycle of lunar eclipses would become apparent.
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