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On August 21, 2017, Clemson lay directly in the path of a total solar eclipse, an event that brought thousands to campus for a \u201cviewing party\u201d and was shared with even more by way<\/strong>\u00a0of social media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div> Organizers estimate that there was a total of about 50,000 eclipse watchers at a variety of campus locations. More than 15,000 gathered on the main campus between the Watt Center and the library for a mix of educational programming and the experience of being together during such an event. Media Relations\u2019 Wanda Johnson did a shout-out on stage, asking people to clap if they had come from a certain state. All 50 states got responses; while that\u2019s not a scientific poll, we do think it\u2019s accurate to say that most states were represented. We confirmed that there were guests from North America, South America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. For more about the solar eclipse over Clemson,\u00a0visit the department of physics & astronomy event page here<\/a>. Clicks\u00a0on clemson.edu\u00a0<\/em>from Likes, Comments or Shares<\/p>\n Views of Photos and Videos<\/p>\n Views of Social Media Posts<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":18614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[2637,2641,3317,3319,3324],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-18407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cadence-count","category-in-these-hills","tag-social-media","tag-solar-eclipse","tag-winter-2018","tag-winter-2018-cadence-count","tag-winter-2018-in-these-hills"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/01\/Eclipse.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18407"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\u201cEclipse Over Clemson\u201d was one of the most shared events in the University\u2019s\u00a0history on social media. It started with content \u2014 59 posts to Instagram,\u00a0Facebook and Twitter, including 17 videos and more than 550 photographs.<\/p>\n
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\nIf you’re interested in ordering the Eclipse Over Clemson keepsake book, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>
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