{"id":1388,"date":"2019-03-27T04:21:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2019-03-27T04:21:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:21:01","slug":"get-ready-for-the-largest-supermoon-in-70-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready For The Largest Supermoon In 70 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get ready for the big one on November 14.\u00a0No, not an earthquake (though you never know), but rather, the largest supermoon in nearly 70 years.<\/p>\n

The Earth\u2019s moon is expected to\u00a0make its closest pass\u00a0to Earth since 1948, according to NASA. It may be worth staying up late for, as it won\u2019t come this close again until\u00a02034.<\/p>\n

Sadly, unlike more marketable moons such as the \u201cblood moon,\u201d or the \u201charvest moon,\u201d this super-closeup is known as a \u201cbeaver\u201d moon, a reference from the\u00a0Old Farmer\u2019s Almanac, according to USA Today, as colonists and Native American tribes of long ago would set beaver traps in the month before rivers froze over.<\/p>\n

But if you want to get technical, scientifically speaking this moon is also known as a\u00a0\u201csyzygy.\u201d\u00a0NASA writes that a syzygy is not only useful in Scrabble but also,<\/p>\n

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When a syzygy happens, the moon can appear up to 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter. It can also increase the pull on the ocean\u2019s tides but only by a little\u00a0so no need to worry.<\/p>\n

Oddly, this supermoon will happen in the early moon, at 8:52 a.m. EST, meaning that you won\u2019t see it at its peak due to the brightness of the sun. That said, it should still appear big and bright during the wee hours.<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t see this one? Fear not. This fall is looking to be full of supermoons. The next is on December 14. However, the December supermoon will make the\u00a0Geminid meteor shower\u00a0difficult to see due to the brightness, but hey, we\u2019ll take what we can get with astronomical events.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get ready for the big one on November 14.\u00a0No, not an earthquake (though you never know), but rather, the largest supermoon in nearly 70 years. The Earth\u2019s moon is expected to\u00a0make its closest pass\u00a0to Earth since 1948, according to NASA. It may be worth staying up late for, as it won\u2019t come this close again…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}