Posted on 08/29/2015 6:53:41 AM PDT by virgil283
"You've heard of the supermoon before, and we have three of them this year. The first occurs Saturday, August 29th.
A supermoon refers to a full or new moon when it's at its closet point (called the perigee) to Earth in its orbit. The moon can appear up to 30% larger than it's normal size from Earth.
The full moon occurs at 11:35 a.m. MST on Saturday, so the moon technically won't be 100% full when it rises in the east at 6:54 p.m., but we won't be able to tell.
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Beautiful, thanks.
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