Summer Supermoon’s

The summer of Supermoons is here (Source cnn.com) What’s better than a “supermoon”? Three Supermoons! The full moons of summer this year — July 12, August 10 and September 9 — will all be Supermoons, as NASA calls them. The phenomenon happens when the moon becomes full on the same day as its perigee — the point in the moon’s orbit when it’s closet to Earth. Supermoon linked to supercreativity? We think so “Generally speaking, full Moons occur near perigee every 13 months and 18 days, so it’s not all that unusual,” Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory said in a statement from NASA. “In fact, just last year there were three perigee Moons in a row, but only one was widely reported.” Chester was talking about the Supermoon that happened in June last year. It was 14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full moons of 2013, and garnered international headlines.

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