The science behind the "supermoon"

The science behind the "supermoon"

Gotta love the moons out there.

Meh - explaining the bleeding obvious. Here's a Wikipedia page for anyone else who finds that CNN video to be slow loading.

That's no moon. It's a space station. :P

It's too big to be a space station.

Whoever coined the term "supermoon" needs to be hurt. Really badly. The last I checked there's only one moon out there, and there's nothing especially super about it.

It's too small to be a space station.

The Supermoon stuff? AGAIN?

CODOR said:

The Supermoon stuff? AGAIN?

Not sure if my thumb is large enough:

Not a clearing in the sky the entire day.

I've seen a "supermoon" before. It was much more animated

This is really only an event to people who would never look at the moon otherwise. Like that Bad Astronomy article says, you have nothing to compare it against in the sky. The moon looks no bigger to me tonight than it did when it was full last month.

I became bored of the hype as soon as I saw the Wikipedia illustration.

Be afraid, be very afraid!

K!r4 said:

Not sure if my thumb is large enough:

Not sure if you're being serious, but that is an effect of the atmosphere.

Also, put your thumb closer to your eye.

DuckReconMajor said:

Also, put your thumb closer to your eye.

Or move further away from the monitor.