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This Year's Only Supermoon Happens This Weekend
Popular Mechanics ^
| Nov 28, 2017
| Andrew Moseman
Posted on 11/28/2017 5:51:44 PM PST by BenLurkin
Loft your eyes toward the skies on Sunday, Dec 3. The only supermoon of 2017 will be appearing over your head.
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The moon's orbit varies a lot. On average, our natural satellite is 238,000 miles from here. But it can be as far as about 252,000 miles away and as close as 221,000 miles or so. When the moon is full at that short distance, the resulting supermoon can appear about 14 percent larger in the sky, and can be about 30 percent brighter.
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This weekend's event won't be quite as spectacular as the much-ballyhooed supermoon of November 2016, which was the largest since 1
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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: supermoon
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posted on
11/28/2017 5:51:44 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
252/221 ~= 1.14027 ... “squared” ~= 1.30022
... Check!
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posted on
11/28/2017 6:13:59 PM PST
by
dr_lew
(I)
To: BenLurkin
Shine on, shine on harvest moon ...
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posted on
11/28/2017 6:43:28 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
To: BenLurkin
know someone who has a birthday that day.
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posted on
11/28/2017 6:50:07 PM PST
by
Shadowstrike
(Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
To: Bigg Red
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posted on
11/28/2017 6:56:04 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Vacate the chair! Ryan must go. Dump McConnman, too.)
To: BenLurkin
One of my favorite paintings, "Carnival Evening" by Henri Rousseau, 1885:
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posted on
11/28/2017 7:09:17 PM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
To: BenLurkin
Toobad the waethwr is caca in Seattle area right now....otherwise I would slap my camera in the equatorial mount and get some pix.
Got some fantastic photos of the eclipse in August.
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posted on
11/28/2017 7:33:24 PM PST
by
TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
(Repeal & replace Obamacare, tax reform, fix infrastructure, fixin military, Israel, kill enemies)
To: BenLurkin
The last “supermoon” I saw was in 1964 when one of the T. brothers mooned us from their brand new Pontiac GTO convertible while going over a raised railroad track.
We were all singing “How high the Moon” that night, and howling at it, too.
What has been seen cannot be undone!
To: SamAdams76
They don’t make songs like that any more.
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posted on
11/28/2017 8:58:37 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Albion Wilde
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posted on
11/28/2017 8:59:35 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: tumblindice
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posted on
11/29/2017 7:28:27 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Vacate the chair! Ryan must go. Dump McConnman, too.)
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