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Hold onto your techtonic plates everyone, this one is gonna be an aesthetic experience of note! The moon is going to be the closest to Earth it has been in 18 years, of course there are rumours that it is going to cause natural disasters of epic proportions, but have your camera out nonetheless. Myself and a few friends are going on a full moon hike, to the peak of one of the mountains, where you get a really epic 360 degree view of the ocean and other mountains, and the Moon will look like it's right next to us because it's so high up. Really excited about this!

 

check this article out if you want to know what it's all about

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/12/supermoon-cause-moonquakes-scientist-says/

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'Supermoon' is a situation when the moon is slightly closer to Earth in its orbit than on average, and this effect is most noticeable when it occurs at the same time as a full moon. So, the moon may seem bigger although the difference in its distance from Earth is only a few percent at such times.

 

It is called a supermoon because this is a very noticeable alignment that at first glance would seem to have an effect. The 'super' in supermoon is really just the appearance of being closer, but unless we were measuring the Earth-Moon distance by laser rangefinders (as we do to track the LRO [Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter] spacecraft in low lunar orbit and to watch the Earth-Moon distance over years), there is really no difference. The supermoon really attests to the wonderful new wealth of data NASA's LRO mission has returned for the Moon, making several key science questions about our nearest neighbor all the more important.

 

 

The effects on Earth from a supermoon are minor, and according to the most detailed studies by terrestrial seismologists and volcanologists, the combination of the moon being at its closest to Earth in its orbit, and being in its 'full moon' configuration (relative to the Earth and sun), should not affect the internal energy balance of the Earth since there are lunar tides every day. The Earth has stored a tremendous amount of internal energy within its thin outer shell or crust, and the small differences in the tidal forces exerted by the moon (and sun) are not enough to fundamentally overcome the much larger forces within the planet due to convection (and other aspects of the internal energy balance that drives plate tectonics). Nonetheless, these supermoon times remind us of the effect of our 'Africa-sized' nearest neighbor on our lives, affecting ocean tides and contributing to many cultural aspects of our lives (as a visible aspect of how our planet is part of the solar system and space).

 

 

Don't get too worried about natural disasters ;)

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