https://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/436393.htm Sky gazers around the world witnessed the biggest and brightest full moon in nearly seventy years on the past Monday and Sunday evenings. The supermoon is only marginally more impressive than a normal full moon but what makes it so incredible, is that during a superman the moon appears at its closet point in orbit around earth. This close orbit is known as a perigee. Sky- watchers across the United States witnessed this rare perigee and has not happened in seventy years and is predicated not to happen again until 2034. The supermoon was predicted to come as close to the earth as 348,400 kilometers away from Earth's surface, this is about 22,000 miles closer than an average night. The explanation for how the moon came so close to the earth during orbit is the egg shape orbit it forms around our planet. A superman occurs when the timing of a full moon overpass with the point in the moon's 28- day orbit that is closest to Earths surface. Spectators came out to view this rare combination and will not be able to view something similar until 2034!
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