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Article: Video Fix: Solar eclipse plunges Asia in darkness.(The Big Blog)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- July 21, 2009
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Hey, everyone. Today's Video Fix has videos of the solar eclipse, a woman disrupting a townhall meeting to say Obama is not an American citizen, Joe Jackson denies beating Michael and the latest on the South Park attacks.
Total eclipse of the sun
Asia fades to black: There was a solar eclipse seen across Asia today. It was the longest solar eclipse of this century owing to how close the moon is to the earth and how far away the earth is from the sun. Small sun, big moon shadow, you get the idea. In some parts of Asia, the eclipse lasted for 6 minutes and 39 seconds. That's 6 minutes and 39 seconds of blackness in the middle of the day, folks. Spooky.
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