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Ace of the Deep
 Join Date: May 2013
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Super Moon
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/06/22/supermoon-rises-in-weekend-night-sky-sunday/?intcmp=features
On Sunday, June 23, at 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT), the moon will arrive at perigee — the point in its orbit bringing it closest to Earth, a distance of 221,824 miles. Now the moon typically reaches perigee once each month (and on some occasions twice), with their respective distances to Earth varying by 3 percent. But Sunday's lunar perigee will be the moon's closest to Earth of 2013. When the perigee moon lies close to the horizon it can appear absolutely enormous... a low-hanging moon looks incredibly large when hovering near to trees, buildings and other foreground objects. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/06/22/supermoon-rises-in-weekend-night-sky-sunday/?intcmp=features#ixzz2X1wr8LqW Has anyone seen this super moon? Too cloudy here to get any photographs of it.
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