At Its Nearest to Earth In Almost 20 Years, Supermoon Gets a Closeup | Popular Science - http://www.popsci.com/science...
Mar 22, 2011
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"Anyone with clear skies Saturday night saw a spectacular swollen moon, 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than our satellite usually appears. Photos abound from amateur and professional photographers, but we like this picture from NASA, showing a pink-hued moon rising above the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. On Saturday, the moon was 221,565 miles away — the closest it's been to Earth since March 1993. It caused higher and lower tides, which apparently led to some minor problems for ships — five vessels were stranded in the U.K. because of sandbars that were exposed in a particularly low tide. But for the most part, the supermoon simply looked superb."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch... ...a video describing the event's facts ;)
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Oh, yes and this was the Iranian new year (March 18th/19th). Happy New Year's to those who recognized this day as such! :)
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