Re: [Paddlewise] One bright thing pre Y2K

I'm late on this thread but I got this e- from my cousin that refers to the 
next moon. 
Sounds worth checking out!
Peter Gengler


Amazing Full Moon - 

December 22, For the first time in the life of anyone around today, we'll see 
a full moon occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 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. 

On December 21st, 1866 the Lakota Sioux took advantage of this combination 
of occurrences and staged a devastating retaliatory ambush on soldiers in 
Wyoming Territory. 

In layman's terms: It will be a super bright full moon, much more than the 
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
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