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An international research team has revisited one of the oldest precisely dated records of a total solar eclipse, uncovering new details about how Earth's rotation has changed over thousands of years. By combining historical geography with modern astronomical calculations, the scientists reconstructed an eclipse that occurred in 709 BCE and determined how it would have appeared from Qufu, the ancient capital of China's Lu Duchy.
The researchers also examined an...
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