NASA spaceweather Update, with music link, via my friend Don Wilson in first comment! :-D FLY ME TO THE SUPERMOON: The Moons orbit around Earth is not a circle, its an ellipse. When a full Moon occurs on the near side of the orbit, it looks extra big and bright, and we call it a supermoon. The first of three supermoons arrived on July 12th: This weekend I was on my deck taking some zoom photos of the supermoon when an airplane flew by, says photographer Ralfo Winter. It was coming in for a landing at New York City. As explained in a video from Science@NASA, the technical term for this phenomenon is perigee Moon. A nearby perigee Moon can be 14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full Moons of the year. This kind of Moon is not particularly rare; they come along every 13 months or so. However, this summer we will have three supermoons in a row. The next one is August 12th. spaceweather/
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:08:24 +0000
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