Year's Biggest Full Moon Friday Night


	Year's Biggest Full Moon Friday Night

piggylicious

12-12-2008 5:44 PM

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Earth, the moon and the sun are all bound together by gravity, which keeps us going around the sun and keeps the moon going around us as it goes through phases. The moon makes a trip around Earth every 29.5 days. But the orbit is not a perfect circle.

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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/f785838f-dc42-4f9e-b373-d4be39df3f6c/D1394714-7244-4E8C-95E7-8AA70FD2F7B2/" 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.yahoo.com/" href="http://www.yahoo.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.yahoo.com/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.yahoo.com/img/6FFD05BA-9318-4EE0-BFE4-BEB39C480274" alt="A full moon (John Foxx/Getty Images) " /></div></blockquote><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://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" 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/20081211/sc_space/yearsbiggestfullmoonfridaynight" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20081211/sc_space/yearsbiggestfullmoonfridaynight" 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/20081211/sc_space/yearsbiggestfullmoonfridaynight">The <SPAN id="lw_1229029324_0" class="yshortcuts">full moon</SPAN> Friday night will be the biggest one of the year as <SPAN id="lw_1229029324_1" class="yshortcuts">Earth's natural satellite</SPAN> reaches its closest point to our planet.</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/20081211/sc_space/yearsbiggestfullmoonfridaynight">The moon's average distance from us is about 238,855 miles (384,400 km). Friday night it will be just 221,560 miles (356,567 km) away. It will be 14 percent bigger in our sky and 30 percent brighter than some other <SPAN id="lw_1229029324_4" class="yshortcuts">full moons</SPAN> during the year, according to <SPAN id="lw_1229029324_5" class="yshortcuts">NASA</SPAN>.</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/20081211/sc_space/yearsbiggestfullmoonfridaynight">Tides will be higher Friday night, too. Earth's oceans are <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/space/sc_space/storytext/yearsbiggestfullmoonfridaynight/30215676/SIG=1232hnlcd/*http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/moon_mechanics_0303018.html"><SPAN id="lw_1229029324_6" class="yshortcuts">pulled by the gravity</SPAN></A> of the moon and the sun. So when the moon is closer, tides are pulled higher. Scientists call these perigean tides, because the moon's closest point to Earth is called perigee. The farthest point on the lunar orbit is called apogee.</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/20081211/sc_space/yearsbiggestfullmoonfridaynight">Some other strange lunar facts:</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/20081211/sc_space/yearsbiggestfullmoonfridaynight"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The      moon is <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/space/sc_space/storytext/yearsbiggestfullmoonfridaynight/30215676/SIG=122h5i066/*http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070122_temporary_moon.html"><SPAN id="lw_1229029324_7" class="yshortcuts">moving      away</SPAN></A> as you read this, by about 1.6 inches (4 centimeters) a year.      Eventually it'll be torn apart as an expanding sun pushes the moon back      toward Earth for a wrenching close encounter.</LI>
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