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Solar Eclipse Wensday

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Interesting information.

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsw ... ?id=426723

Partial Solar Eclipse Visible Wednesday In Thailand

BANGKOK, July 20 (Bernama) -- People living in Thailand would have a rare opportunity to experience a partial solar eclipse from 7am-9am on Wednesday morning as the longest total solar eclipse of the century traverses across six Asia-Pacific countries including Thailand, Thailand News Agency (TNA) reported quoting a Thai academic as saying.

Dr Pornchai Pacharin-tanakun, a lecturer in the Physics Department of Chulalongkorn University said the solar eclipse on July 22 is the longest total solar eclipse so far in the 21st century with a maximum duration of six minutes and 39 seconds.
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