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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Friday, March 18, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: It Only Happens Every Twenty Years--->This Weekend A Full Moon Will Be As Close To The Earth As It Gets! The moon will appear larger and brighter this weekend. Its orbit varies up to 31,000 miles from its closest location to Earth---the perigee--- to its furthest point---the apogee. Even this weekend, as close as the moon ever gets to Earth, it is still 211,600 miles away! Here are a few quotes from the CNN story that you can access by clicking the image below: "Saturday's full moon will be a super 'perigee moon' -- the biggest in almost 20 years. This celestial event is far rarer than the famed blue moon, which happens once about every two-and-a-half years." "The last full moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993" Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 4:27 PM Keywords: Pass It On Education Content , Moon , Science , Space 0 Comments |