Thread: Sound 'cause of shadow spectacle'
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Old 02-July-2008, 02:55 AM
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[...] observers on the Earth's surface would see bands of light race
across the ground due to diffraction; see this page for details:

http://spiff.rit.edu/richmond/occult/bessel/bessel.html
So I wonder how did the article come to contain:

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Early theories suggested this effect was due to diffraction of the Sun's rays around the limb of the Moon. But this theory has fallen out of favour.
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