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how do you make a sketch of the earth, moon, and sun during a solar eclipse so that your sketch contains similar triangles?
17 years ago

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drwls
See the first figure at
http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/why.html
Add to it vertical lines across the sun and moon connecting the points where other lines are tangent.
You should see many similar triangles in the resulting figure.
17 years ago

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