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Unusually big and bright moon lights night sky
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It happens only every 20 years or so, but Sunday morning’s full moon was 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than it sometimes appears. According to NASA Science, the super full moon is a “perigee moon,” which last occurred in March of 1993. ”Full moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the moon’s orbit,” said the site. “It is an ellipse with one side (perigee) about 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other (apogee).” The night started overcast and the morning sky was again covered in clouds, but for a few hours, the bright moon flooded Davis County from the closest it’s been or will be in a long time: 221,565 miles away. Photo by Louise R. Shaw
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