Fw: Shoot the Moon

["Celia Krall" <celiak@pcrs.net>]

Not endurance related ( well - could be, if you love to ride in the
moonlight) - but I thought some of you might be interested.
> 
> > > 
> > This year will be the first full moon to occur 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 Lakota 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 descendents 100 or so years
> from 
> > now will see this.  But we get to see it in 2 weeks!
> > Now how cool is that?



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