04-14-2011, 04:20 AM
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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follow-up, about 3 weeks later...
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Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?
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It may not be faster than a speeding bullet, but tonight the moon will make its closest approach to Earth
in 18 years—making the so-called "supermoon" the biggest full moon in years.
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A full moon sets over Hungary, Photograph by Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN)
source: "Supermoon" Tonight: Biggest Full Moon in 18 Years
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"The last full Moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993," says Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory in Washington DC. "I'd say it's worth a look."
Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon's orbit. It is an ellipse with one side (perigee) about 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other (apogee): diagram. Nearby perigee moons are about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser moons that occur on the apogee side of the Moon's orbit.
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source: Super "Perigee Moon" - NASA Science
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