Could Astronomers Calculate If There Was A Solar..

[sandyRoe]

...eclipse over Palestine some 2000 years ago?

[Khandro]

I don't know if there was, but if there was , yes.

[naomi24]

Apparently scholars have calculated the date of the crucifixion as 3 April 33AD.  According to  NASA there was lunar eclipse on that day.

[webbo3]

Palestine didn't exist 2,000 years ago. Israel did tho.

[sandyRoe]

The sky darkened and Jesus cried out:

My Lord, my Lord, why have thou forsaken me?

Makes one think, does it not?

[naomi24]

Not really.  Who recorded it?

[sandyRoe]

Israel didn't exist until 1947.  It's younger than I am.

[sandyRoe]

@15:20

It's reported in the NT.  And NASA has confirmed part of the story.

[naomi24]

Is this going to turn into another Israel/Gazafest?  I hope not.  You've raised an interesting topic.

[naomi24]

Which part of the story has NASA confirmed?  A lunar eclipse doesn't darken a daytime sky.

[naomi24]

The authors of the New Testament didn't witness the crucifixion.  They've written on hearsay.

[barry1010]

Before the Romans named it Palestine the land was called Judah. Before that it was the Kingdom of Israel

 

 

[Khandro]

'Palestine' was never a country and still isn't.  It is a region, like Sahara is a region.

It was originally call Canaan The first clear use of the term Palestine to refer to the entire area between Phoenicia and Egypt was in 5th century BCE ancient Greece, when Herodotus wrote in The Histories of a "district of Syria, called Palaistínē"  

[ToraToraTora]

yes easy, and they have.

[Khandro]

Sorry barry, your wrong on every count 🙂

[sandyRoe]

A lunar eclipse. Looking at any moon, other than a full moon, are you seeing a lunar eclipse?

That clearly wouldn't darken the sky.

[webbo3]

sandyRoe@15:21

\\Israel didn't exist until 1947.  It's younger than I am.//

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon

\\The successor of his father David, he is described as having been the penultimate ruler of all Twelve Tribes of Israel under an amalgamated Israel and Judah. The hypothesized dates of Solomon's reign are from 970 to 931 BCE.//

\\Born11th–10th century BCE
Jerusalem, Kingdom of Israel and Judah//

[Radagast]

Sandy, a lunar eclipse can only occur at full moon.

[New Judge]

"A lunar eclipse. Looking at any moon, other than a full moon, are you seeing a lunar eclipse?"

No you are not.

A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes into the shadow of the Earth, thus blocking sunlight from illuminating it.

The "phases" of the moon occur every 28 days and are caused by the shape of the sunlit portion of the moon changing as it rotates around the Earth.

Lunar eclipses occur a least twice a year and sometimes as many as five times, though these will not always be total eclipses and the appearance of the moon during them depends on where, on the Earth, they are viewed from.

If you were standing on the moon during a lunar eclipse on Earth, you would observe a solar eclipse, with the Earth blocking out all or part of the sun.

Solar eclipses on the Earth can be "total" because the ratio of the distances from the Earth to the Sun and from the Earth to the moon is the same as the ratio of the diameters of the Sun and the moon (roughly 400:1).

So, when viewed from Earth, the moon has an "apparent" size almost identical to the Sun. When the moon passes beween the Sun and the Earth its apparent size (being 400 times closer) is identical to the apparent size of the Sun, so blocks it all out. 

 

[Radagast]

//The "phases" of the moon occur every 28 days//

Not quite. 29.53 days.

[New Judge]

Yes, thanks for the correction, Radagast.