Posted on 03/10/2011 4:34:28 PM PST by americanophile
On March 19, the moon will swing around Earth more closely than it has in the past 18 years, lighting up the night sky from just 221,567 miles (356,577 kilometers) away. On top of that, it will be full. And one astrologer believes it could inflict massive damage on the planet.
Richard Nolle, a noted astrologer who runs the website astropro.com, has famously termed the upcoming full moon at lunar perigee (the closest approach during its orbit) an "extreme supermoon."
When the moon goes super-extreme, Nolle says, chaos will ensue: Huge storms, earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural disasters can be expected to wreak havoc on Earth. (It should be noted that astrology is not a real science, but merely makes connections between astronomical and mystical events.)
But do we really need to start stocking survival shelters in preparation for the supermoon? [Photos: Our Changing Moon]
The question is not actually so crazy. In fact scientists have studied related scenarios for decades. Even under normal conditions, the moon is close enough to Earth to make its weighty presence felt: It causes the ebb and flow of the ocean tides.
The moon's gravity can even cause small but measureable ebbs and flows in the continents, called "land tides" or "solid Earth tides," too. The tides are greatest during full and new moons, when the sun and moon are aligned either on the same or opposite sides of the Earth.
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Japan 8.9 Earthquake, hundreds of aftershocks, 13 in the 6.0 range, then another 6.6 in another location. Tsunami devastates parts of Japan.
Earthquakes erupt in Russia, Japan, and Indonesia.
That’s just today.
Clairvoyant earthquake/tsunami? The lunar event isn’t until the 19th...
Coincidently, higher Earthquake activity seems to correspond to periods just before, and after, the actual conjunction.
That is not to say that the Moon 'causes' any specific Earthquake. It is a factor. A very large one, but only one among many.
Right. In that case I'll simply consider the moon to be something really nice to look at in our night sky.
:-)
Cheers!
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