Originally trained as a lunar scientist, John Dvorak spent twenty years operating a large telescope at Mauna Kea for the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii. He has written cover stories for Scientific American, Astronomy, and Physics Today. His books include Earthquake Storms and The Last Volcano.
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Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emboldened, and mesmerized people for thousands of years. They were recorded on ancient turtle shells discovered in the Wastes of Yin in China, on clay tablets from Mesopotamia and on the Mayan 'Dresden Codex.' They are ... SEE MORE