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Tonight: The Rise of the 2013 “Mini-Moon”
The December 2010 Solstice Full Moon. (Photo by Author)
The final Full Moon of 2013 occurs tonight, and along with it comes something special: the most distant and visually smallest Full Moon of 2013.
Why doesn’t the annual “mini-moon” receive the same fanfare and hype that the yearly perigee – or do you say Proxigean to be uber-obscure – “supermoon” does? The smallest Full Moon of the year does appear to have a public relations problem in this regard. But as you’ll see, the circumstances for this week’s Full Moon are no less fascinating.(…)
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© David Dickinson for Universe Today, 2013. |
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