{"id":1309,"date":"2012-11-30T09:20:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T16:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2012-11-30T09:20:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T16:20:07","slug":"apod-2012-november-29-super-moon-vs-micro-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2012 November 29 &#8211; Super Moon vs Micro Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap121129.html\">APOD: 2012 November 29 &#8211; Super Moon vs Micro Moon<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/1211\/supermicromoon_paduraru.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"See Explanation.  Clicking on the picture will download\n the highest resolution version available.\" src=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/1211\/supermicromoon_paduraru.jpg\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><b>Super Moon vs. Micro Moon <\/b><br \/><b>Image Credit &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/lib\/about_apod.html#srapply\">Copyright<\/a>: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrosnake.com\/contact.htm\">Catalin Paduraru<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><b>Explanation: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/earthsky.org\/tonight\/smallest-full-moon-of-year-and-penumbral-eclipse-november-28\">Did you see<\/a> the big, bright, beautiful Full Moon Wednesday night? That was actually a Micro Moon! On that night, the smallest Full Moon of 2012 reached its full phase only about <a href=\"http:\/\/fourmilab.ch\/earthview\/pacalc.html\">4 hours before apogee<\/a>, the most distant point from Earth in the Moon&#8217;s elliptical orbit. Of course, earlier this year on May 6, a Full Super Moon was near perigee, the closest <a href=\"http:\/\/fourmilab.ch\/earthview\/moon_ap_per.html\">point in its orbit<\/a>. The relative <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap080801.html\">apparent size<\/a> of November 28&#8217;s Micro Moon (right) is compared to the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap120511.html\">May 6 Super Moon<\/a> in these two panels, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrosnake.com\/gallery\/moon.htm\">matching telescopic images<\/a> from Bucharest, Romania. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perseus.gr\/Astro-Lunar-Scenes-Apo-Perigee-2010.htm\">The difference<\/a> in apparent size represents a difference in distance of just under 50,000 kilometers between apogee and perigee, given the Moon&#8217;s average distance of about 385,000 kilometers. How long do you have to wait to see another Full Micro Moon? Until January 16, 2014, when the lunar full phase will occur within about 3 hours of apogee<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap121129.html\">APOD: 2012 November 29 &#8211; Super Moon vs Micro Moon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APOD: 2012 November 29 &#8211; Super Moon vs Micro Moon Super Moon vs. Micro Moon Image Credit &amp; Copyright: Catalin Paduraru Explanation: Did you see the big, bright, beautiful Full Moon Wednesday night? That was actually a Micro Moon! On that night, the smallest Full Moon of 2012 reached its full phase only about 4 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">APOD: 2012 November 29 &#8211; Super Moon vs Micro Moon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}