THE SOLAR SYSTEM (WKZO AM-FM) –The only Super Moon of 2017 will be overhead tonight as the Earth, the Sun and the planet’s biggest satellite align just at a time when the Moon is closest to Mother Earth in its elliptical orbit.
The result is a Moon that appears to be just a little bit bigger and brighter than it normally is.
The complicated gravitational dance between the three that keeps them from flying apart, also keeps them in a repeating pattern that creates the seasons on Earth, the tides and life itself as we know it.
Without that varied distribution of sunlight on the surface, life on Earth might have developed in a very different way, if at all. It was that wobbling waltz through space that made us what we are today, and the surest evidence of that will be on display tonight.
We won’t have to wait long for the next Super Moons. Another is scheduled for January 2nd, and the next, on January 31st will also be the second in a month, a Super Blue Moon.
You can see it for your own eyes, but you might get a lot more out of it if you also tune into the play by play on youtube.
The only Super Moon of 2017 will be overhead tonight as the Earth, the Sun and the planet’s biggest satellite align just at a time when the Moon is closest to Mother Earth in its elliptical orbit.
The result is a Moon that appears to be just a little bit bigger and brighter than it normally is.
The complicated gravitational dance between the three that keeps them from flying apart, also keeps them in a repeating pattern that creates the seasons on Earth, the tides and life itself as we know it. Without that varied distribution of sunlight on the surface, the life on Earth might have developed in a very different way, if at all. It was that wobbling waltz through space that made us what we are today, and the surest evidence of that will be on display tonight.
We won’t have to wait long for the next Super Moons. Another is scheduled for January 2nd, and the next, on January 31st will also be the second in a month, a Super Blue Moon.
You can see it for your own eyes, but you might get a lot more out of it if you also tune into the play by play on youtube.
