Get Ready For the Biggest Full Moon in 19 Years
Posted: Wednesday, March 09, 2011
by Drunken Mystic
http://drunkenmystic.wordpress.com
All of us will be witnessing one of the rarest events next weekend, when the moon approaches its closest point to Earth. This is going to be the biggest full moon in about 19 years.
The 19th of March will be an unusual huge full moon day as the moon will be progressing during its 28-day cycle towards a point called as ‘lunar perigee’.
On a serious note, scientists are worried that this ‘lunar perigee’ of the moon could cause great extremities in weather conditions and also natural catastrophes like tsunami, earthquake or volcanic eruptions.
Indonesia witnessed an earthquake in 2005 which was measured as 9.0 on the Richter scale and that was the year the moon passed unusually closer to the earth and the same year we witnessed Hurricane Katrina.
While other sceptics have overlooked the possibility of weather extremity, there has been evidence for such occurrences in the years 1955, 1974 and 1992.
Yahoo! News spoke to Dr. Tim O’Brien who said, “The dangers are really overplayed. You do get a bit higher than average tides than usual along coastlines as a result of the moon's gravitational pull, but nothing so significant that will cause a serious climatic disaster or anything for people to worry about.”
Dr. Victor Gostin is a Planetary and Environmental Geoscientist at Adelaide University and his views differ a bit from Dr. O’Brien who speculated that places around the equator experiencing earthquakes with much intensity might have to do something with new moon and full moon situations. He confirmed his statement by stating Earth-tides maybe one of the triggering causes for the earthquake.
We might also experience extreme high tide and low tide situations during this time, sources said.
Source: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/38/20110309/tsc-world-to-see-biggest-full-moon-in-tw-98fda55.html
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Biggest full moon in 19 years, interesting DMWill be interesting to watch it close to the earth on 19th March. Thank you.
I really enjoyed this article, DM, it was very interesting! Thanks for sharing it with us. I hope we have clear skies, I'm very eager to witness this event.Thank you for commenting too, Linda. I think it will be interesting to watch an unusual full moon this year.Cant wait till 19th March to see the spectacular view after some bhaang during the day as it will be Holi :-pOh really, it's holi. That's great! Will write on that too.
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