Why don't we have solar eclipse every new moon day

Question

Why don't we have solar eclipse every new moon day

Answer 1

Coz earth, sun and moon are not aligned always during they revolve in respective orbits around  each other.

Answer 2

Just like we do not have lunar eclipses every full moon day!!!

Answer 3

Hi there...

Isnt it obvious..???

Here is the explaination...

In a Solar Eclipse,

Earth     -     Moon     -     Sun

This alignment is a must as the moon blocks the sun's light and eclipsing it!!!

On a new moon day, the position of the moon must be somewhere like this-

Moon

   τ

Earth   -   Sun..!!!

Take care and Njoi life!!!

Answer 4

Moons shadow misses the sun because of :

1. Elliptical orbit of moon around earth

2. Orbit of moon is tilted to earths axis

3. Moon orbit occults or wobbles

4. Earths orbit around sun is elliptical

5. Earths orbit around sun occults or wobbles

6. Moon is moving away from earth

7. Earth is moving away from Sun

8. Occlusion or wobbling of moons orbit is increasing

9. Occlusion of earths orbit around sun is increasing

Answer 5

becuase the way the earth spins around

Answer 6

It is true that solar eclipse is caused when the moon comes in the way of the visible path of the sun  as viewed from the earth. Yet, every new moon day we do not have solar eclipse. This is because on every new moon day, the sun, the moon and the earth are not in one plane. That is,  the shadow of the moon does not fall on the earth.

   This is also the reason why at some places (on earths surface ) the solar eclipse is visible and from some places it is not; at some places it may be near total and while at  some places it is only partial solar eclipse. It is only when the ecliptic of the moon and the ecliptic of the earth, which are not co-planer, allow the three heavenly bodies to come in one straight line (approx), such that the shadow of the moon (either umbra or penumbra)  falls on the earth tht solar eclipse takes place.

Answer 7

becouse when the earth revolves around the sun one day moon will come in between the earth and sun.

Answer 8

hmmm,dont knw

Answer 9

it's depending uponthe orbit and position of Moon, Earth .the shadow will not fall in line all the the new moon time so it does not occur.

Answer 10

a solar eclipse is when the moon comes in between the sun and the earth........... whereas a new moon day is when the earth is between the sun and moon..... there's a difference

Answer 11

a solar eclipse occurs whenever the sun, the moon & the earthare in the straight line, with the moon between sun & earh . this is happan on a moon day  

Answer 12

The plane of the moon’s orbit around the Earth is tilted about 5 deg to Earth’s orbit around the sun.  Since the moon (and the sun) only present s disk half a degree wide, most of the time the moon misses the sun’s disk, and sometimes by as much as 10 deg,  

Even when the moon is in the part of its orbit where it lines up with the sun, the path of totalilty across the earth is quite narrow.

The lunar eclipse is much more common because it is the moon passing into the Earth’s shadow, which is several times as wide as the moon, so it is much more likely to get an intersection.  

Answer 13

we don't have solar eclipses every new moon day because to have eclipses the moon's and earth's orbit have to be perfectly aligned at the exact moment the new/full moon takes effect, which doesn't happen very often which is why we don't have as many eclipses. The same goes for lunar eclipses.

hope this helps =)

Answer 14

because the earth, moon and sun are not in one line on every new moon night and solar eclipse happens only when moon comes in the way of earth and sun but in ine line only

Answer 15

Because the Earth is on a tilt.  The moon must be on a perfect alignment with the Sun and the Earth.

Answer 16

The plane of the moon's orbit around the earth is not the same as the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun -- they are inclined with respect to each other by about 5 degrees.  So, much of the time, when the moon is in conjunction with the sun, its shadow is either above the earth's north pole or below the south pole, and no eclipse is seen.  The two planes intersect in a line called the "line of node"; if this line is pointing close to the sun, you get an eclipse.