Word: nantucket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge area, the ?? will cover some 96 per cent of ??sun-not quite enough to see the ??s faint corona, the shifting halo ??onized gases that extends millions miles from the sun's surface. But ?? Nantucket Island, the eclipse will match totality for about two minutes. ?? the sky is clear, thousands of New England sun-watchers will crowd the ?? antiquate ferry or fly out to the island ??or those two minutes. Executive Air-??nes regularly scheduled flights have been sold out for weeks, and several ?? ter airlines have assigned their en-??re flees to ferrying eclipse-watchers ??om mainland points...
...totality approaches on Nantucket, the "Diamond Ring Effect" should be visible. A thin circle of light, capped by one bright spot, surrounds the moon's black disc and creates the impression of a ring. About this time, ripples of light (the so-called shadow bands) may race across the landscape as sunlight is refracted by irregularities in the earth's upper atmosphere...
...ASTRONAUT looking down from space would see the eclipse's totality as a black circle about a hundred miles across that would first appear off the Pacific Coast of Central America and then race across Southern Mexico. The shadow would then pass over the southeastern U. S.. Nantucket, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland before disappearing east of Greenland. This deep shadow or umbra is shaped like an inverted cone with its base on the moon and its narrowest point on the earth...
Executive Airlines and the Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket Steamship Authority may bolster their Nantucket schedules with extra trips to the Island on the eclipse date, but neither company has made a firm decision...
...Nantucket eclipse-watchers may be disappointed: March 7 has a habit of being a very cloudy day on the Island...