Monday, March 21, 2011

Super Moon

Did you see the moon on Saturday night?  Read the following link to see why it was such a phenomena. 


Super Moon

Why did the moon appear so large

45 comments:

keisersydney said...

No, i didn't get to see the moon on saturday night (if i did, i didnt pay much attention to it) The moon appeared so large because the moon's orbit has an oval shape orbit, and one side of the oval is closer to earth, that is the perigree side, and the other side is the apogee side. The last time the moon was on the perigree side was march 28, 1983.

Madison Schnell said...

I did not get to see the moon saturday night, but, I wish I had. This moon was such a phenomena because it only happens every 18 years or so, and the moon was closets to earth, and was in the phase of a perigee moon, which is when the moon is closest to earth. In the video, the moon looked amazing in pictures, and I hope I can get to see it in 18 years.

Kilgore, Sydney said...

Yes i saw the moon saturday. It appeared very large. This moon was the closest its been to the earth as it has been in 18 years or so. It was a phase of a perigee. In the video it was amazing loooking.

Sheridan,Megan said...

The moon was in the phase called the Perigee moon, which is the biggest moon in the last 20 years and closest to the earth. This happenes every 18 years or so. The moon was 14% bigger than it usually is. I did not get to see the moon saturday night, but ext time I hope I get to see it.

PAPATHANAS,ANTHONY said...

I did get to see the moon on saturday even those it was cloudy outside. Its a phenomena because the moon only looks that big every 18 years ir so becuase the moon has an oval shape shadow on the earth. The video made the moon look awsome to.

anonymous said...

on saturday march 19th the moon appeared to be very large because it was closer and looked 14% bigger than what we normaly see.the same thing happened on march 28th 1983.

Adam Lyons

anonymous said...

It changes because of its ovel shape rotation longer called apogee short called perigee. But the supermoon doesnt cause flaodes because 1998 didnt cause a flood. sometimes the super moon doesnt look diffrent from the reagular moon.
by ted young

Royer Rachel said...

Actually on Saturday I did get to see it but I didnt notice it.It just looked like the moon I see all the time,there wasnt that much differnt than an regular moon.It is such a big thing because it is when the mooon is the closest to the earth and it only happens 18 years or so.The moon was in a perigee phase.In the video the moon looked amazing and I wish that I payed more attention to it.I hope I get to see it in the next 18 years or so.

Anonymous said...

yes i did see the moon on saturday it kept on getting bigger and bigger. the moon apperared so lage because the earth and moons orbit are not exactaly circle but more oval and on saturday they were bothe on oppiste sides of each other so it was the closest ever in 18 years

kiphart,shane said...

no but its because the moons orbit was getting closer in like a ovule shape and one side was called the apogee side and the other side was called the perigree

Sean Laake said...

I was able to see Super Moon on Saturday, just in time to see it peek over the Horizon once it got dark. The moon appears large because of the moon's oval orbit arouns us. At times aboutevery 20 years, a Pedigree full Moon appears. So in an average life time of 80 years, you get to see it4 times about.

Cecil,Tommy said...

Yes i did see the moon it was huge. It happened because of the oval shaped orbit.

Wall, Alexandra said...

I did see the moon on Friday, but I didn't think that it looked any different. The moon appeared so big because it's orbit was closest to the Earth in 60 years (before we were alive). The last time the moon was this close was in 1983.

Park Deborah said...

No i didnt see the moon saturday but now i wish i did. It occurs once every 18 years and is brighter and 14% bigger. There are two side, perigee and apogee, saturday night was one the perigee side which is alot closer then the perigee side.

anonymous said...

I didn't see the moon on Saturday but this morning I did, I'm pretty sure it wasn't anything close to a super moon but it was pretty big. I wish I saw it cause 18 years from now I probably won't even realize it's happening. But also, in 18 years will the super moon still be on March 19th or will it be a different day in March ?

-Corissa Sturm,(:

McGinnis,Ben said...

I did not get to see the moon saturday night, but, I wish I had. This moon was such a big evnt because it only happens every 18 years or so, and this time the moon was closets to earth, and was in the phase of a perigee moon, which is when the moon is closest to earth. In the video, the moon looked amazing in pictures, and I hope I can get to see it in 18 years.

Kelly said...

i did see the moon on saturday it did seem bigger my brother told me about it. it was awsome and it seemed to be so close. i wanted to touch it! the moon was a phase of perigee.

KAM said...

yes,and this moon was such a phenomena because it only happens every 18 years or so, and the moon was closets to earth, and was in the phase of a perigee moon, which is when the moon is closest to earth.In the video the moon looked amazing and I wish that I payed more attention to it.I hope I get to see it in the next 18 years or so.

Emily Renee Heckman :) said...

No, I didn't get to the see moon on Saturday night because I was super busy with my Mom and hanging out with my brother and sister. The moon appeared larger because of the shape of the moon's orbit. And the shape of the moon's orbit is similar to the oval. If it's closer to the earth, then it's the perigree side. If it's farther away, it's an apogee. The last time that this occured was about March 28th, 1983. This is just simply amazing!

anonymous said...

Yes I did see the moon Saterday night. It was such a big phenomena because the moon is 14% bigger than it has ever been before and it's called a perigree. Also it is such a big thing because it hasn't happened science March 28, 1983.
Alex Richmond

freel,amanda said...

I did see the moon on Saturday night. The moon appeared sooo large b/c it was 30,000 kilometers closer to the earth, and it was part of the moon's orbit. 1 of the oval sizes of the moon is closer to earth and the other side is further. Closer to the earth is the perigree side and the further away side is the apogee side. The last time the moon's perigree side as closer to the earth was on March. 28th, 1983!!!!

Fairbanks,Joey said...

I did see the moon but it didn't seem any bigger than a normal night. sometimes the moon looks bigger on regular nights.

freel,amanda said...

I agree with Sydney Keiser: because of how large the moon was on Saturday night. Also, I didn't really know all the sides of the moon and what they were called.

coors amber said...

Yes. I did see it. I looked at it and i said to my dad, "wow...the moon actually looks really close and really big tonight" and he said that it was a super moon and he also said that he was watching the news and they said that it is weird that there is always some kind of event that happens around a super moon. It is just a coincidence though. It has nothing to do with the super moon. Just like this supper moon...we just had the big earthquake in japan. they said it had nothing to do with the super moon but it another coincidence. They also siad that sinc ethe moon was so big at the super moon, the tides were going to be way higher and way lower that usual. I would love to be on a beach during a super moon then!! the moon appeared so large because we were so close to it. during a super moon, the moon has a lot of gravitational pull.

klingelhoffer,sawyer said...

no i did not see the moon on Saturday night, but i wish i would have. the moon was about 50,000 km closer to earth than it usually is. perigee is 14% bigger than opegee and also 30% brighter.

Sara said...

14% bigger! Wow... There hasnt been one quite like it since 1993. I did see and i noticed something off about it but i wasnt quite sure, now i know. In the picture on the site it seemed alot larger than what i saw though.

anonymous said...

Wow when you actually get to see the moon on Saturday compared to the moon than it useally is its amazing how much bigger it is. (14%)I really wish I was able to see it Saturday!

-Dylan Humbert

Kylie Hayes said...

I didn't get to see the moon Saturday night, but was a phenomena because it was closets to the Earth. Which only happenes every 18 years or so. It was in the phase of perigee moon which is when the moon is closet to the Earth. I wish I would've gotten to see the moon and its glory. I hoep to see it in 18 years (or so).

Duebber, Jenna said...

Yes, I did see the moon on Saturday and the funny thing is that we were talking about it in the car. The reason it appeared so large is the moon was on the pedigree side which is closer to the earth. The moon's orbit is oval shaped. The reason that it was a phenomena is because it hasn't happened for about 18 years.

gorman,kyle said...

I did get to see the moon on saturday night because we were sitting there o myu couch watching tv and my mom said that we should go out side and look at the moon so we did and me or my brother didnt see any diffrence in the moon even though it was 14% bigger I thought it was very cool because the last time it happened was on March 28, 1993. All I wonder is when will it happen again?

anonymous said...

no i did not see the moon on saturday i wish i had i heard it was the closet moon to the earth it has been in 18 years or so. it was at the phrase perigee moon on saturday that phrase is when it is closet to the sun.


~Kristin Murphy(:

Buelterman,Abbey said...

I did see the moon on Saturday it was very pretty I went outside and laid on my mat and stared at it for a while with my mom and dad.I appeared so large because the moons orbit has an oval shapeorbit, and one side of the oval is closer to the Earth, that is the perigee side and the other side is the apogee side.The very last time the moon was on the perigee side was March 28, 1983.

gorman,kyle said...

To Jenna Do you know when this will happen again

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anonymous said...

I did get to see the moon on Saturday when I was in my car driving back from the rapid run revue. I even told my mom to look at the moon and I thought it looked rather big to me and I went onto facebook and some one said it was the closet to earth in 18 years.

~Charles P Freudemann~

Xavier Frisch said...

It looked larger because the moon has an elliptical rotation around the earth. Because of this it means part of the orbit is closer to the earth than the other. This side is the perigree and when there is a perigree moon it appears larger.

anonymous said...

No I did not see and now i'm sad about it. The moons orbit was an oval shape.

By:Gillian Melugin

Bass,Zoey said...

i didnt get to seen the moon saturday, but my mom told me that i absolutly had to get up in the middle of the night and look at it...i didnt...BUT, i heard that it happens every 18 years or so....i'll just see it when i'm 30...no biggie...

Xavier Frisch said...

@ sean laake
You got to see it? i didn't. well mainly because i didn't even check. Well at least like you said I will get another chance to see another one.

imushrush said...

Yes i saw the super moon. on channel 5 news i saw that there was gonna be a bigger and brighter moon so that knight i looked up in the moon and saw it. The reson it seemed to be bigger and brighter was because it was on the perigree side and the last time it was like this was March/28/1983. (3/28/1983)

dace,connor said...

Unfortunately I didn't. The moon appeared bigger because of the oval shaped orbit the moon has around the earth and one side is closer than the other and this is called the perigee where it is 14% bigger than normal. The last time this happened it was march 28, 1983.

anonymous said...

I saw he moon sunday and saturday. i thought it looked cool. my mom went and took pics of the city with the moon in the back round. the reason why it as so big is because the moons orbit was a big oval shape.

kristan dalton

anonymous said...

I did not see the moon on saturday night.The moon appered so big because the moon's orbit has a ovalish shape orpit path.One side of the oval is closer to earth this is the perigee side. The other side is the apogee side . The last time a moon like this appered was in 1983 on march 28(March 28,1983).

anonymous said...

Yes I did see the moon saterday night.This moon was such a phenomena because it only happens every 18 years or so, and the moon was closets to earth, and was in the phase of a perigee moon, which is when the moon is closest to earth.In the video it was amazing looking.

David Meiners

Evan Triplett said...

I saw the moon on saterday and it did look bigger 14% to be exsact and the last time it happend it was 1983.