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Mar 28, 2006
Holiday airline Thomas Cook
has scheduled twelve extra flights to Southern Turkey
so that amateur astronomers can have a chance to see a total eclipse of the sun
due on March 29, 2006. The eclipse, caused by the shadow of the moon, will only
be visible within a narrow band over half the earth extending from Brazil, across the Atlantic and ending in Mongolia.
Turkey’s Southern
Mediterranean coast is expected to be a good vantage point on the
morning of March 29.
Thomas Cook has brought
forward part of its Turkish summer program by a week to allow holidaymakers to
build the eclipse experience into their break. In addition, the airline has two
flights, one from Stansted and one from Newcastle
leaving for Antalya,
on March 28 and returning on the evening of March 29.
These eclipse specials are
being handled by the specialist tour operator Omega Holidays.
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