The Truth Behind a Blue Moon


	The Truth Behind a Blue Moon

dellarae

5-28-2007 1:56 AM

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mistakes, farmers almanac, term

dellarae says:

3rd month in the 4 seasons - read on

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5-28-2007 7:36 AM

dorine

Fascinating.

5-30-2007 10:19 PM

RavenFox

Yes very fascinating

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b6c98d6c-1e03-4206-b16f-4bb26d0229f5/6A5BB247-2724-462D-BAC1-F153E591E07D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/070525_ns_blue_moon.html" href="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/070525_ns_blue_moon.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/070525_ns_blue_moon.html"><P class="MsoBodyText"><FONT size="2" face="arial"><FONT face="arial">Thursday,
May 31 brings us the second of two full Moons for North Americans this month.
Some almanacs and calendars assert that when two full Moons occur within a
calendar month, that the second full Moon is called the "Blue Moon." </FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/070525_ns_blue_moon.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.space.com/img/A9F299E5-1F66-4582-8811-18143E444CA7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/070525_ns_blue_moon.html"><P class="MsoBodyText"><FONT size="2" face="arial"><FONT face="arial">The phrase
"Once in a blue Moon" was first noted in 1824 and refers to
occurrences that are uncommon, though not truly rare. Yet, to have two full
Moons in the same month is not as uncommon as one might think. In fact, it
occurs, on average, about every 32 months. And in the year 1999, it occurred
twice in a span of just three months! </FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/070525_ns_blue_moon.html"><P class="MsoBodyText"><FONT size="2" face="arial"><FONT face="arial">It was not
until the year 1999 that the origin of the calendrical term "Blue Moon"
was at long last discovered. It was during the time frame from 1932 through
1957 that the Maine Farmers' Almanac suggested that if one of <A href="http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/060925_seasons.html">the four
seasons</A> (winter, spring, summer or fall) contained four full Moons instead
of the usual three, that the third full Moon should be called a "Blue
Moon." </FONT></FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6A5BB247-2724-462D-BAC1-F153E591E07D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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