{"id":31913,"date":"2024-04-09T08:29:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T13:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=31913"},"modified":"2024-04-09T08:36:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T13:36:53","slug":"eclipse-related-poll-results-from-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/lifestyle\/eclipse-related-poll-results-from-the-weekend-20240409","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse Related Poll Results From The Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Great American Eclipse happened on Monday, April 8, 2024. On Saturday, April 6th, the AltonMo.com field team went around to different eclipse events and polled attendees. The questions asked were as follows 1. What are you looking forward to on eclipse day? 2. How long can the totality part of a solar eclipse last? and 3. What is one of the two planets in our solar system that do not experience eclipses?<\/p>\n<h2>Eclipse Day<\/h2>\n<p>Different answers were given for what people were looking forward to on eclipse day, but most people said just to experience it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experience it: 40%<\/li>\n<li>Not looking forward to anything: 20%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Eclipse Length<\/h2>\n<p>Most of the people interviewed were not strong in the astronomy part of the questions (which was two). Hardly anyone knew how long the totality part of a solar eclipse can last.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Correctly answered: 14.3%<\/li>\n<li>Incorrectly answered: 85.7%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Planets<\/h2>\n<p>The final question asked was what is one of the two planets in our solar system that do not experience eclipses.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Correctly answered: 20%<\/li>\n<li>Incorrectly answered: 80%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Answers<\/h2>\n<p>For those wondering what the answers are to the last two questions, here they are. For how long a solar eclipse totality can last, it can last seven and a half minutes. For the second question, Mercury and Venus do not experience eclipses because they have no moons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great American Eclipse happened on April 8, 2024. On April 6th, the AltonMo.com field team went around to different eclipse events and polled attendees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[518,201,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31918,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31913\/revisions\/31918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}