{"id":8802,"date":"2017-11-28T18:17:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T01:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8802"},"modified":"2017-12-02T18:22:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T01:22:25","slug":"supermoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/28\/supermoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Supermoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/2017\/11\/28\/only-supermoon-year-rise-sunday-evening\/901844001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from USA Today<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline speakable-headline\">The only supermoon of the year will rise Sunday evening<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/staff\/782\/doyle-rice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">Doyle Rice<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"oembed-asset-photo-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2017\/11\/27\/USATODAY\/USATODAY\/636473898485149280-112717-supermoon-Online.png\" width=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">The only supermoon of 2017 will appear in a sky near you Sunday night &#8230; weather permitting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Bigger and brighter than a typical full moon, the term \u201csupermoon\u201d was coined\u00a0in 1979 by astrologer Richard Nolle. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/moon.nasa.gov\/observe-the-moon\/supermoon\/?utm_source=TWITTER&amp;utm_medium=NASAMoon&amp;utm_campaign=NASASocial&amp;linkId=45255490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA<\/a>, it&#8217;s used by the media today to describe what astronomers would call a perigean\u00a0full moon: a full moon occurring near or at the time when the moon is at its closest point in its orbit around Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">A supermoon can appear as much as 14% bigger and 30% brighter than when a full moon is at its farthest distance from Earth, NASA said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The astronomical term for a supermoon is &#8220;perigee syzygy.&#8221; (Syzygy is when the sun, moon and Earth are all aligned in a straight line.)<\/p>\n<p>The exact moment of the full moon is the morning of Dec. 3\u00a0at 10:46\u00a0a.m. ET, (9:46 a.m. CT, 8:46 a.m. MT, and 7:46 a.m. PT), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/34515-supermoon-guide.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Space.com<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/2017\/11\/28\/only-supermoon-year-rise-sunday-evening\/901844001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at USAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from USA Today The only supermoon of the year will rise Sunday evening by\u00a0Doyle Rice The only supermoon of 2017 will appear in a sky near you Sunday night &#8230; weather permitting. Bigger and brighter than a typical full moon, the term \u201csupermoon\u201d was coined\u00a0in 1979 by astrologer Richard Nolle. According to NASA, it&#8217;s used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}