Multiple Choice
One eclipse year is the time needed for:
A) three saros intervals.
B) the line of nodes of the Moon's orbit to go from alignment with respect to the Sun-Earth line to the next identical alignment.
C) 365 successive eclipses.
D) two consecutive identical alignments of the Sun, the Moon, and the line of nodes.
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