By mid-November, Chicago's World Series afterglow will have faded and the hotly contested presidential election will be done and dusted, but North Americans will have one more "once in a lifetime event" to look forward to: The biggest, most spectacular supermoon in decades.
On November 14, skywatchers will be rewarded with a lunar close-up, the result of a coincidence between the moon's elliptical orbit and the position of the Earth and Sun.
A "supermoon" is the colloquial term for when a full moon coincides with the moon's closest approach to Earth, known as perigee.
Supermoon, Black Moon, the Cubs winning the World Series...the signs are upon us. The end is nigh.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday November 08 2016, @03:16PM
I have much the same reaction to these kinds of stories, mostly because the people most keen on talking about it tend to be the purveyors of New Age nonsense (professional astrologers in particular).
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.