Why are total eclipses in the USA so infrequent?

On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 11:26:11 -0700, "Mij Adyaw"
wrote, in part:

When is the next total eclipse that will be
visible throughout the USA?

Pretty much never. The path of totality of an eclipse is usually rather
narrow.

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In article ,
Martin Brown wrote:

Jan Owen wrote:

I blame Blair.

Why? He managed to fix it for the UK to have a total eclipse in 1999.

....and also an annular eclipse in 2003....

Unfortunately most of the path of totality in Cornwall was badly clouded
out and only the folk in aircraft really got to see the thing properly.

The weather was a bit better in 2003 -- annularity was observed from the
ground at a few places, despite the Sun being very near the horizon.

The bigger your country the better odds you get.

Regards,
Martin Brown

Yep -- in my own fairly small country, the last total eclipse was in 1954
and the next one will be in 2126 .... which btw happens to be the same year
comet Swift-Tuttle is supposed to return.

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