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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday November 08 2016, @05:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the was-that-a-horseman? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @05:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @05:23PM (#424147)

    Of course you would head for the hills if Hillary wins. If Donald wins, you would head for the Don. [wikipedia.org] :-)