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Title    Rare Black Moon on Friday, September 30th
Date    Saturday October 01 2016, @01:12AM
Author    takyon
Topic   
from the mooned-you-too-late dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/10/01/0043210

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Are you ready for a cosmic shift of epic proportions? You’d better be, because such a shift is approaching, courtesy of our moon! This Friday, September 30th, the moon will be new but ‘black.’ During a black moon, the side of Earth’s natural satellite lit by the sun faces away from our planet. As a result, …

Also at Space.com which clarifies that when there are two New Moons in a single calendar month, the second one is called a Black Moon. This is analogous to a "Blue Moon" which is the second Full Moon occurring in a single calendar month.

Original Submission

Links
  1. "MrPlow" - https://soylentnews.org/~MrPlow/
  2. "Space.com" - http://www.space.com/34162-black-moon-guide.html
  3. "New Moons" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_moon
  4. "Black Moon" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_moon
  5. "Full Moon" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_moon
  6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=16152
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