Very good! Thank you. > Marsha Hallett wrote: > > Dear Silver Listers, This is pretty interesting, so I~m sending it > along. > Marsha > > A pre-millennial event of some note; since there are no unplanned > moments > in nature, this one could be a reminder of how grand nature's plan can > appear to us. It is especially cool for all you with wide-eyed young > kids > (and a few who just must be interested in staring at the sky). All I > can > say is it had better not be cloudy in two weeks! This year will be the > first full moon to occur this century 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 21st, 1866 the Dakota 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! Our ancestors 133 years ago saw this. Our > descendants 100 or so years from now will see this again. Remember, > this > will happen December 22, 1999.
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