alt Hacker Newsit was my vague understanding that what is weird is the apparent size matching. since the moon is slowly moving away, eventually we'll no longer have total solar eclipses, just annular and partial.
it was my vague understanding that what is weird is the apparent size matching. since the moon is slowly moving away, eventually we'll no longer have total solar eclipses, just annular and partial.
The relative sizes are approximate, not perfect, but close enough that our monkey brains interpret it as more than a coincidence.