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on Monday February 18 2019, @02:17PM
from the do-"flat-Earthers"-believe-in-a-flat-moon? dept.
from the do-"flat-Earthers"-believe-in-a-flat-moon? dept.
"Skygazers will be treated to the 'super snow moon,' on Feb. 19, the largest supermoon of 2019.
February’s full moon is known as the “snow moon” as a result of the heavy snowfall that often occurs at that time of year...............
Supermoons occur when the Moon’s orbit brings it to the closest point to Earth while the Moon is full." foxnews.com/science/get-set-for-super-snow-moon-the-biggest-supermoon-of-the-year
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(Score: 4, Informative) by FatPhil on Monday February 18 2019, @03:07PM (2 children)
Here's what little science and nonscience there is to my understanding of the matter:
- There are ~12 super-ish moons each and every year - ones at perigee (closest aproach to earth in each orbit), they're basically as common as any other feature of the moon's orbit.
- Some of these super-ish moons are arbitrarily called "supermoons", some are not, as some perigees are a bit closer than other perigees
- Half of the super-ish moons are completely ignored because they're closer to new moons than full moons
- Because astrologers and pulp journalists think the moon can only cause earthquakes and extreme tides when the sun's photons are bouncing off it.
- there's no correlation between supermoons and earthquake activity or extreme tides
- professional astronomers get really annoyed by the public asking them about such nonscience.
This story is just our @jDT obsession with nonscience, and pulp journalistic bullshit. Nothing to see here, move along.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @08:26PM
That could be, there seems to be a very slight effect on pendulum due to that:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allais_effect [wikipedia.org]
Wouldn't be surprising if some kind of butterfly effect could get set off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @08:40PM
Huh, here I thought that the whole "super moon" was just the biggest and brightest looking moon you can get, that is, that it is simultaneously at perigee and is full.
Pretty sure, people like them cause they look impressive.
Winter ones more so, as the snow reflects back and you get the brightest night you can get in many places (not where I live, where the brightest nights are the ones that are overcast and the clouds reflect all our light pollution back at us).