The fact that the chances for a planet with a solar eclipse like ours is so tiny makes for a plot point in several science fiction books. One example, from Iai

The fact that the chances for a planet with a solar eclipse like ours is so tiny makes for a plot point in several science fiction books. One example, from Iain M. Banks' Transition: > But what I want to propose to you is that, as well as all those other wonders, they would definitely want to see that one precious thing that we have and probably nobody else does. They’d want to see our eclipse. They’d want to look through the Earth’s atmosphere with their own eyes and see the moon fit over the sun, watch the light fade down to almost nothing, listen to the animals nearby fall silent and feel with their own skins the sudden chill in the air that comes with totality. Even if they can’t survive in our atmosphere, even if they need a spacesuit to keep them alive, they’d still want to get as close as they possibly could to seeing it in the raw, in as close to natural conditions as it’s possible to arrange. They’d want to be here, amongst us, when the shadow passes.