Saturday, January 30, 2010

The Biggest and the Brightest last Night

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In spite of all the cloud cover last night, there were moments when the moon appeared.

The full moon was 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter compared to the other full moons of the year because it was closer to Earth. This only happens twice a year.

On an average, a moon is 238,855 miles away from Earth but last night it was only 221,577 miles away from our planet, thus the closet perigee of the moon for this year.

I did not hear any werewolves--just one barking dog.

1 comment:

kkss21 said...

Beautiful,but looked like the average old full moon to me .