The first series of the triple eclipses will begin on 7 July 2009 with a penumbral lunar eclipse, followed by a total solar eclipse on 22 July and thereafter a lunar eclipse on 6 August.
The first recorded triple eclipse in 3067 BC coincided with the Kurukshetra war in which 4.7 million people took part. The destruction of the city of Dwarka coincided with another set of triple eclipse in 3031 BC. More recently, the first half of the 20th century saw the occurrence of a series of triple eclipses between 1910 and 1945, which coincided with World Wars I & II, the Holocaust and the nuclear bombings in Japan!
Six more such triple eclipses will occur over the next decade,
until 2020.
"When the solar eclipse occurs during Amavasya, it has to be watched. The Mumbai attack happened on Amavasya.
India was divided on Amavasya, if you remember," he added. "So,S the effect of Amavasya during the triple eclipses would be threefold."
The three eclipses that occurred during the first recorded triple eclipse in 3067BC brought the Kuruskshetra war; the second in 3031BC submerged Krishna's Dwaraka and saw the internecine war of the Yadavas.
The 20th Century eclipse series saw two world wars and the world's first and only nuclear attack.
When the Earth is caught between the Sun and the Moon, a huge gravitational pull between the Sun and the planets affects the speed of the Earth's rotation. This, in turn, will affect the motion of tectonic plates that could fall out of sync with the Earth's rotational speed. Tremors are the result.
