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by Sakes 3976 days ago
All you can take away from the moon passing over the sun's reflection is this. The moon crossed over the sunlight reflected from the earth. To create a shadow, the moon must cross through the light emitted from the sun.

This image might better help explain. Since the earth's orbital plane is in a different xy plane than the moon's, the moon crossing over the reflection guarantees nothing about whether it crossed the sun's emitted light.

http://www.cnyo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014april10_e...

1 comments

Ah, yes of course. And as cyanoacry noted in another comment, the satellite isn't actually in the Lagrange point - it is orbiting it. Thanks for clearing that up.
Oh nice, ya, I didn't address the Lagrange point because I didn't have any knowledge of it.