Hundreds of people gathered at Angel Mounds State Historic Site to watch the solar eclipse.
The turnout was so strong that the facility on the Vanderburgh-Warrick county line had to limit sales of eclipse glasses to one pair for every two patrons.
Site Director Mike Linderman says Angel Mounds was a special place to watch the celestial event…
("Angel Mounds was a ceremonial complex for the Mississippian culture and they lived here from the year 1000 to 1450. There are a lot of solar alignments on the property, a lot of lunar alignments, a summer solstice alignment, and the mounds are aligned by the moon." )
Among the spectators was 8-year-old Elek, who described what he was seeing through his eclipse glasses…
("It looks like a giant peanut butter cookie" JG: With a bite taken out of it? "Yeah.")
As the daylight dimmed, the boy said he and his dad had discussing how the moon may have been formed…
("Some scientists think there was an asteroid that hit the earth and part of it flew out and went into the earth's gravitational pull." JG: And became the moon? "Yeah.")
Elek may sound like a future scientist. He says he hopes to be a zoologist.
