<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/83692852-2450-4c04-90b4-56d8c4de9653/F1313492-6E8F-4852-9F69-006874504755/" 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/091002-harvest-moon.html" href="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/091002-harvest-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/091002-harvest-moon.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.space.com/img/627FF25C-4D3C-4A38-B93B-2B8EC7E9EBDF" 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/091002-harvest-moon.html"><P class="MsoNormal">This weekend's full moon will be a somewhat special one in that it will also carry the title of "harvest moon" for those living in the Northern Hemisphere.  </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/091002-harvest-moon.html"><P class="MsoNormal">The moon officially turns full when it reaches that spot in the sky opposite (180-degrees) to the sun in the sky and this moment will occur on Sunday at 06:10 Greenwich Time (2:10 a.m. EDT . . . or in the Pacific Time zone, it actually falls on <I>Saturday night, October 3</I> at 11:10 p.m. PDT). </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/091002-harvest-moon.html"><P class="MsoNormal">It turns out that this full moon is also the one that comes closest on the calendar to the <A href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/090921-fall-autumnal-equinox.html">September equinox</A>. In 2009 this circumstance comes later than usual . . . into the month of October, as opposed to the more traditional month of September.  </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/091002-harvest-moon.html"><P class="MsoNormal">Between 1970 and 2050, there are 18 years when the harvest moon <A href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=090930-harvest-moon-02.jpg&cap=Just+as+the+sun+is+setting+in+the+west+this+weekend%2C+look+to+the+east+and+see+the+harvest+moon+and+Jupiter+rising.+Credit:+Starry+Night+Software">comes in October</A>.  The last time was in 2006 and next time will be in 2017.  The 2009 version of the harvest moon comes unusually late, although it can occur as early as September 8 (as in 1976) or as late as October 7 (as in 1987).</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/F1313492-6E8F-4852-9F69-006874504755/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.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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