• Question: has any of you heard of the super moon

    Asked by SCIENTIST BEAST to Ajay, Kate, Kuntal, Pip, Reka on 11 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Reka Nagy

      Reka Nagy answered on 11 Nov 2016:

      Yep – supermoons happen when there is a full moon that happens to be on the point of its orbit that brings it closest to Earth. These can be quite amazing, being bigger and brighter than your average full moon. Assuming you don’t have cloudy weather..

    • Photo: Kuntal Singh

      Kuntal Singh answered on 12 Nov 2016:

      Yes I have. Moon’s orbit around the earth is not a perfect circle. So somewhere in the orbit, it comes closest to the earth and at some other point in the orbit, it is at the farthest. When it is closest to the earth, than when moon is referred to as super moon (or perigee). The latest news is that the night of the 13th or 14th November will be a supermoon, so watch out for it.

    • Photo: Pip Millington

      Pip Millington answered on 18 Nov 2016:

      Yes but did you know the scientific name for it is a perigee syzygy?

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