Friday, December 12, 2008

There's a moon out tonight...



whoa, whoa, oohooooo ~

Tonight, a "perigee" is happening ... Go outside and look ~ QUICK!

At this link, you can really see the huge moon, and read the story

A full moon has occurred closer to the Earth than it has done at any time for the past 15 years.

The Moon's elliptical orbit means its distance from the Earth is not constant.

It was a little over 350,000km away as it passed over the northern hemisphere, about 30,000km closer than usual
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That, loosely translated means, the moon looks very, very big.

My photo is not professional. But there you have it. My evidence that I did see the perigee event. Yay, team.

(I don't know how the moon got squeeshed in this photo below. It looks like a huge jelly bean.)

1 comment:

LNL said...

Beautiful!