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SUMMARY:BIGGEST FULL MOON IN 19 YEARS
DESCRIPTION:\n\nBiggest Full Moon in 19 Years Will Make Your Night Bri
 ghter, More Romantic Than Usual\n\nOn March 19th, the moon will be clo
 ser--and thus bigger--than it's been in two decades\nBy Dan NosowitzP
 osted 03.10.2011 at 4:29 pm 35 Comments\n\nApogee/Perigee Anthony Ayi
 omamitis\n\nOn March 19th, the moon will be closer to Earth than it's 
 been since 1992. The full moon that night will appear about 14 percent
  larger and significantly brighter than usual, but despite the brightn
 ess, the supermoon has a dark side. Supermoons have been linked to mas
 sive natural disasters in the past, from earthquakes to floods--but th
 at connection is typically touted by astrologists. Astronomers and sci
 entists, with typical drollness, say a catastrophe is unlikely.\nMarch
  19th marks this year's lunar perigee, the point in the moon's orbit a
 t which it is closest to Earth. It's the moon's elliptical orbit that'
 s responsible for the differences in distance between the moon and Ear
 th (the opposite, the point at which the moon is farthest from the Ear
 th, is called the lunar apogee). This month's perigee will leave the m
 oon, says Steve Owens at Dark Sky Diary, about 8 percent closer to Ea
 rth than usual, and about 2 percent closer to Earth than the average l
 unar perigee. In fact, it'll be the closest positioning since 1992.\nP
 ast supermoons have coincided with natural disasters--the Indonesian e
 arthquake in 2005, Australian flooding in 1954--but scientists note th
 at those are unrelated, more likely than not.Says John Bellini, a geop
 hysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey: \"A lot of studies have been d
 one on this kind of thing by USGS scientists and others. They haven't 
 found anything significant at all.\" The tides will pull a bit higher,
  but earthquakes are almost completely unaffected and volcanoes are no
 t likely to show unusual behavior. John Vidale, a seismologist at the 
 University of Washington in Seattle, said \"Practically speaking, you'
 ll never see any effect of lunar perigee. It's somewhere between 'It h
 as no effect' and 'It's so small you don't see any effect.'\"\nBesides
 , it's still 2011. Everyone knows there won't be any world-ending cata
 strophes until next year, right?\n\n\n\n\n \n \nhttp://www.popsci.co
 m/science/article/2011-03/biggest-full-moon-20-years-almost-certainly-
 wont-cause-huge-natural-disaster\n\nFor more information visit https:/
 /vbnightlife.com/events/biggest-full-moon-in-19-years
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