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Saturday Night Special: Biggest Full Moon of 2009
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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/62169bc4-4243-4e33-a1df-d990c21c6740/A524648B-433A-48E5-8498-013B32EEF64A/" 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://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090109/sc_space/saturdaynightspecialbiggestfullmoonof2009" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090109/sc_space/saturdaynightspecialbiggestfullmoonof2009" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090109/sc_space/saturdaynightspecialbiggestfullmoonof2009"><P>If skies are clear Saturday, go out at sunset and look for the giant moon rising in the east. It will be the biggest and brightest one of 2009, sure to wow even seasoned observers.</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://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090109/sc_space/saturdaynightspecialbiggestfullmoonof2009"><P> It will appear about 14 percent bigger in our sky and 30 percent brighter than some other <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/space/sc_space/storytext/saturdaynightspecialbiggestfullmoonof2009/30511242/SIG=12qed2akd/*http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=1687&gid=140&index=0"><SPAN id="lw_1231523823_2" class="yshortcuts">full moons</SPAN></A> during 2009, according to <SPAN id="lw_1231523823_3" class="yshortcuts">NASA</SPAN>. (A similar setup occurred in December, making that month's <SPAN id="lw_1231523823_4" class="yshortcuts">full moon</SPAN> the largest of 2008.)</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://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090109/sc_space/saturdaynightspecialbiggestfullmoonof2009"><P>This month's full moon is known as the Wolf Moon from Native American folklore. The <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/space/sc_space/storytext/saturdaynightspecialbiggestfullmoonof2009/30511242/SIG=125l7aeap/*http://www.space.com/spacewatch/090109-ns-full-moon-names-2009.html"><SPAN id="lw_1231523823_8" class="yshortcuts">full moon's of each month are named</SPAN></A>. January's is also known as the Old Moon and the Snow Moon.</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://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090109/sc_space/saturdaynightspecialbiggestfullmoonof2009"><P>If you have other plans for Saturday night, take heart: You can see all this on each night surrounding the full moon, too, because the moon will be nearly full, rising earlier Friday night and later Sunday night. </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://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090109/sc_space/saturdaynightspecialbiggestfullmoonof2009"><P>A departing fact: The moon is <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/space/sc_space/storytext/saturdaynightspecialbiggestfullmoonof2009/30511242/SIG=1232hnlcd/*http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/moon_mechanics_0303018.html"><SPAN id="lw_1231523823_10" class="yshortcuts">moving away</SPAN></A> as you read this, by about 1.6 inches (4 centimeters) a year. Eventually this drift will force the moon to take 47 days to circle our world.</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;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A524648B-433A-48E5-8498-013B32EEF64A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.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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