Thursday, May 3, 2012

Super Moon - May 5th, 2012

The Moon’s distance from the Earth is not always the same due to the elliptical shape of the orbit and variations in the gravitational attraction between the Moon, Earth and Sun.
When a full moon occurs close to the perigee of the Moon (a point of its closest approach to the Earth) and its distance from our planet is much smaller than the usual one, then we can observe a “super moon” phenomenon.

Click on the link below to find out more about the Super Moon that will be in our night sky this weekend.