A partial

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occurred on September 20–21, 1960. A

occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth. It began in northeast Russia near sunrise on September 21, and ended near sunset over

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on September 20, one day earlier because of the effects of the

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Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 1957–1960

References

*Eclipse of the Sun of September 20, 1960—Sky and Telescope magazine, volume 20, page 129.

External links

*http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot1951/SE1960Sep20P.GIF *http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEdata.php?Ecl=19600920 1960 9 20 1960 in science 1960 9 20 September 1960 events {{Solar-eclipse-stub