Every breath, every hour she has spent waiting for him has come to this one moment. She's going to be brave and tell him how she feels, she won't let fear or anything else take this away from her. Time stands still for a moment, a beautiful moment as she reaches him. The second verse is back before she confessed, while she is still going toward him. She tells him not to be afraid-she doesn't want to scare him away-but she's loved him for a thousand years-it feels that way to her, at least-and will continue to love him for a thousand more. She keeps waiting for him to make the first move, but he won't. She's died every day waiting for him-it's painful to always see him and want to tell him how she feels, but not be able to. The chorus is her confession that she loves him. All her doubt goes away-she must tell him. But he's standing all alone and she sees her opportunity. Her heart beats fast when she's around him, she has so much "colours' or the joys of living and being alive, that she wants to share with him, so many promises that she wants to make, but she's too afraid of "to fall" perhaps that he doesn't return her love, that she can't tell him. Verse 1: She has loved this guy for awhile, but never told him. General CommentI don't know if this is "correct" but it's my interpretation of the song: Time has brought your heart to me, I have loved you for a thousand years Why does it not show on our list above? Because the Sun-Earth-Moon alignment was a fraction more perfect than in November 2021 the result was a total lunar eclipse, not a partial one.All of my doubt, suddenly goes away somehowĭarling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand yearsĮvery breath, every hour has come to thisĪnd all along I believed, I would find you The lunar eclipse that occurred on this date was almost identical, but the total duration was even longer: 21,795 seconds (6 hours 3 minutes). If we go back one Saros period before November 19, 2021, we arrive at November 9, 2003. Eclipses repeat-with very small differences-in a 6585-day cycle known as the Saros.
The top five eclipses in terms of overall duration are listed below. In the 1200 years from 1451 to 2650, there are 973 partial lunar eclipses. In May 2021, the magnitude was slightly more than in November 2021 (it was a ‘deeper’ eclipse), but the overall duration was much shorter. The farther away the Moon is, the slower it travels along its orbit, which means it takes longer to pass through Earth’s shadow.īy contrast, maximum eclipse in May 2021 occurred around 9 hours after perigee, the Moon’s closest point to Earth.Īnother way of saying this is that the November eclipse involved a Micromoon, while the May eclipse featured a Supermoon. Why was the November 2021 eclipse so long? The maximum point of the eclipse came about 41 hours before the Moon reached apogee, its farthest point from Earth. For example, the overall duration of the total eclipse of was 18,127 seconds-roughly one hour less. The November 2021 partial eclipse was longer than many total lunar eclipses.
#A THOUSAND YEARS MOVIE#
(This is close to the year the time-travel movie Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure begins!) Why So Long? The next time a partial lunar eclipse reaches this overall length will be on February 8, 2669. That was around the time the Incas were building the city of Machu Picchu in South America. The previous time a partial lunar eclipse was this long was on February 18, 1440.
The overall duration of the November 2021 eclipse-from the moment the Moon entered Earth’s penumbra, to the moment it left-was around 21,693 seconds (about 6 hours 2 minutes).įor a non-total lunar eclipse-in other words, a lunar eclipse that only has penumbral and partial phases-this was an unusually long duration. The partial lunar eclipse of November 2021 was almost a total eclipse.