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Posted Friday, January 9, 2009, at 3:17 PM

If you are out and about Saturday night take a peek into the sky to witness the biggest full Moon of 2009.  It’s called a "perigee Moon" and it’s 14% wider and 30% brighter.  As you will remember from science class, the Moon's orbit around Earth is not a circle; it is an ellipse, with one side 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other. Astronomers call the point of closest approach "perigee," and that is where the Moon will be this weekend.

Source:  NASA


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Jason Lindsey is an award winning Outreach Science Educator for Hooked on Science. Each year Lindsey performs science experiments at more than a hundred schools and community events. Lindsey's science segment "Hooked on Science" airs on television stations across America and has earned awards for outstanding science coverage.
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