From rhoskins@home.com Tue Dec 14 07:10:11 1999 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA53098 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 07:10:09 -0800 Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (imail@ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id HAA23716; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 07:10:09 -0800 Received: from c501522a ([24.5.121.123]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19991214151008.BFTJ20526.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@c501522a>; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 07:10:08 -0800 Message-ID: <001001bf4645$4dd22a50$7b790518@olmpi1.wa.home.com> From: "Dick Hoskins" To: Subject: Fw: WAPHGIS: Winter solstice and the moon Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 07:10:05 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000D_01BF4602.3F7DEF40" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01BF4602.3F7DEF40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ok, not health & GIS but I think you'll be wanting to know about this = anyway ... not clear on the source, about 30th hand in an email from a = friend.=20 "For the first time in the life of anyone around today, we'll see a full = moon occur on the Winter solstice, December 22nd, commonly called the first = day of Winter. Since a full moon on the Winter solstice occurs in = conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon's orbit that is closest to = Earth), the moon will appear about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point = in its elliptical orbit that is farthest from the Earth). Since the Earth = is also several million miles closer to the sun at this time of the year = than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon is about 7% stronger making it brighter. Also, this will be the closest perigee of the Moon of the = year since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. If the weather is clear = and there is a snow cover where you live, it is believed that even car headlights will be superfluous. In layman's terms: It will be a super bright full moon, much more than usual AND it hasn't happened this way for 133 years! Our ancestors 133 years ago saw this. Our descendants 100 or so years from now will see = this again." Dick Hoskins rhoskins@home.com ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01BF4602.3F7DEF40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Ok, not health & GIS but I think you'll be = wanting to know=20 about this anyway ... not clear on the source, about 30th hand in an = email from=20 a friend.
 
"For the first time in the life of anyone around = today, we'll=20 see a full moon
occur on the Winter solstice, December 22nd, commonly = called=20 the first day
of Winter.  Since a full moon on the Winter = solstice=20 occurs in conjunction
with a lunar perigee (point in the moon's orbit = that is=20 closest to Earth),
the moon will appear about 14% larger than it does = at=20 apogee (the point in
its elliptical orbit that is farthest from the = Earth).=20 Since the Earth is
also several million miles closer to the sun at = this time=20 of the year than
in the summer, sunlight striking the moon is about = 7%=20 stronger making it
brighter.  Also, this will be the closest = perigee of=20 the Moon of the year
since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. = If the=20 weather is clear and
there is a snow cover where you live, it is = believed=20 that even car
headlights will be superfluous.
In layman's = terms:  It=20 will be a super bright full moon, much more than
usual AND it hasn't = happened=20 this way for 133 years!  Our ancestors 133
years ago saw = this.  Our=20 descendants 100 or so years from now will see=20 this
again."

 
 
Dick Hoskins
rhoskins@home.com
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