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RE: Total Solar Eclipse July 11 2010

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Thousands of tourists and scientists have descended on Chile's Easter Island to catch sight of Sunday's total solar eclipse.
The eclipse will only be visible from a small section of land, ending over southern parts of Chile and Argentina.
The eclipse starts at 1815 GMT about 700km south-east of Tonga, reaching Easter Island by 2011 GMT.
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Conditions are anything but normal on Easter Island, deemed by astronomers the best place to witness Sunday's alignment of sun, moon and Earth for a fleeting four minutes and 41 seconds.
Some weather forecasts, however, warn of cloudy skies -- potentially dashing hopes of a clear view here.
The total solar eclipse will begin at 18:15 GMT, when the umbra or shadow falls on the South Pacific about 700 kilometres southeast of Tonga, according to veteran NASA eclipse specialist, Fred Espanak.
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On Sunday, July 11th, the new Moon will pass directly in front of the sun, producing a total eclipse over the South Pacific. The path of totality stretches across more than a thousand miles of ocean, making landfall in the Cook Islands, Easter Island, a number of French Polynesian atolls, and the southern tip of South America.
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Avatar director James Cameron will be among thousands of visitors turning their eyes skywards in French Polynesia on Sunday for the islands' first solar eclipse in 350 years.
The Canadian film-maker is one of more than 5,000 tourists expected in the Pacific islands for the eclipse, a mini-boom likely to bring in around 8.4 million euros (10.6 million dollars) for the local economy, according to tourism minister Steeve Hamblin.
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Remote and mysterious Easter Island is bracing for an influx of tourists and problems with Sunday's solar eclipse that is being seen as a mixed blessing for the tiny Pacific territory.
The Chilean island of only 160 square kilometres is expecting an estimated 4,000 visitors, doubling the population of the barren isle which already suffers from water pollution and deforestation.
Four flights were to land Sunday at Mataveri airport with 1,032 people, and more visitors were expected on a dozen boats arriving during the week.
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Internet observation of the total solar eclipse of 11 July 2010

In partnership with the Canary Island-based Shelios Association, the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's Ciclope Group, based at the Facultad de Informática and led by Francisco Manuel Sánchez Moreno, is set to broadcast from Easter Island (Chile) the total solar eclipse due on 11 July 2010 at 22.08 Central European Time via this web site
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