Dátum: 1999. december 21., 16:42
Feladó: Külső hozzászóló --
Tárgy: Fenyes telehold
Kozreadom ezt a levelet, mindenkinek derult eget kivanok.
B. Gabor
This year will be the first full moon to occur on the winter solstice,
Dec.22, commonly called the first day of winter.
Since a full moon on the winter solstice occurred in conjunction with
a lunar perigee (point in the moon's orbit that is closest to Earth), the
moon will appear about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point
in it's elliptical orbit that is farthest from the Earth).
Since the Earth is also several million miles closer to the sun at this
time of the year than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon is
about 7% stronger making it brighter. Also, this will be the closest
perigee of the Moon of the year since the moon's orbit is constantly
deforming.
If the weather is clear and there is a snow cover where you live, it is
believed that even car headlights will be superfluous.
On December 21, 1866, the Lakota Sioux took advantage of this
combination of occurrences and staged a devastating retaliatory
ambush on soldiers in the Wyoming Territory.
In laymen's terms, it will be a super bright full moon, much more than
the usual AND it hasn't happened this way for 133 years and won't
for another 100 or so!
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