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Tommyb323 | 15:02 Fri 05th Jan 2007 | Science
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if the moon were smaller than it is, total eclipses of the moon would occur?

never
less often than now
as often
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More often - the smaller the target the easier it is to cover all of it. But if it was smaller then total solar eclipses could never happen.

All this assumes that the moon gets smaller but its orbit remains unchanged.

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