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over a year ago
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"Even worse it is going to be a supermoon
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/10/the-science-of-supermoons-the-lunar-lowdown-on-the-biggest-and-brightest-in-60-years"
Yikes! Watch out!
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"Even worse it is going to be a supermoon
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/10/the-science-of-supermoons-the-lunar-lowdown-on-the-biggest-and-brightest-in-60-years
Yikes! Watch out!
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Just be very glad it's not on a Friday 13th  |
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It's actually only relatively 7% bigger looking (because if you see it out in space on its own there is nothing to compare it against) but if you look at it over a horizon then it will appear about 30% bigger. |
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"Can't wait. It was pretty big today as well 
Too cloudy to see any moon here."
Yeah I think the opportunity is gone now.. it's pissing here now with no suggestion of stopping. Oh well!  |
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"It's trying to shine through those pesky clouds, and is lighting up the skies, but unfortunately can't really see it here "
Is that Wales? Because I told my 4 year old we would have a look and since then it's been drizzling and cloudy!! |
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"It's trying to shine through those pesky clouds, and is lighting up the skies, but unfortunately can't really see it here
Is that Wales? Because I told my 4 year old we would have a look and since then it's been drizzling and cloudy!!"
Oop north ...
Hang on, it's rising above the clouds  |
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However Neil de Grasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, has previously suggested the events are just a little bit over-hyped.
"I don't know who first called it a supermoon," he told StarTalk radio.
"I don't know, but if you have a 16-inch pizza, would you call that a super pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza?" |
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No problem seeing the hound on our walkies across the fields 
Looking forward to Monday night when it's a full moon. 
It is spookily bright tonight
