Grab your telescopes and cameras and look to the heavens above Saturday night, May 5. That’s when we’re in for another “Super Moon.”
Astronomers are saying that this Super Moon will be even more super than usual.
“The last full moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993,” Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington D.C. told USA Today.
This Super Moon (a phrase coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979) will appear especially large because the moment of perigee—when the moon is closest to the Earth in its monthly rotation—will coincide with the appearance of a perfectly full moon, Smithsonian points out. During last year’s Super Moon on March 19, 2011, for comparison, the perigee and full moon were 50 minutes apart.
On Saturday at 11:34 p.m. ET, the moon reaches full moon status—when the earth, moon and sun are all in
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