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See The Supermoon Tonight

Posted by timothy on from the wear-no-kryptonite dept.

watermark writes "About every 28 years a 'supermoon' occurs. This is when the moon's orbit is closest to earth at the same time as a full moon. Saturday night will be the biggest, brightest full moon you will see in the next 28 years." The buzzkills at Space.com explain though that (For North Americans at least) you'll actually only be seeing a "waning gibbous moon," but it should still be spectacular.

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  1. Re:Crash by Sulphur · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I was reading this in the newspaper a few days ago and it really does look bigger. Almost as if it might crash into us.

    So the moon spins around us in an ellipsis, where it's closest to us at perigee and furthest at apogee. Apparently it's blamed for the tsunami.

    That's erripse not erripsis.

    BTW the tsunami was caused by grobar walming.