November's Supermoon is a sight to behold. It is also historic considering that it has been around 70 years since the last natural satellite of such magnitude surfaced.
However, people around the world will most likely get another chance to re-live the recent glowing experience this December on another supermoon emerging. No less than NASA has confirmed its advent.
There is a big reason to believe that the show in the sky will be bigger than what commenced in November. Alongside the Yuletide season's brilliant moon will be the Geminid meteor shower.
Mapping it in the sky, the meteor experience will happen in the Gemini constellation proximal to the Castor and Pollux stars. It is estimated that about 120 fireballs per hour will lit up the heavens. Together with Supermoon December, the view up there has just rocketed to another level.
With the lustrous planetoid trending, it is interesting to note how often this supermoon phenomenon usually occurs. The truth is there are around four to six glowing night balls annually which mean that the event should not warrant a huge attention. However, the occurrence of three radiant satellites during the last quarter of 2016 definitely attracts interest.
It is in 1979 when Richard Nolle penned the word supermoon in a write-up for the Horoscope Magazine. The astrologer best exemplifies the phenomenon when he depicted that Earth's closest neighbor is ninety percent close to the surface of the planet. This is related to the pedigree approach which means that the moon is ideally 30,000 miles near the globe.
According to Nolle, in order to qualify as a supermoon, Earth's natural satellite must be 361,524 kilometers or 224,641 miles away from the planet.
2016 is an impressive period for supermoons. There are six glowing balls all year long with three of these occurring each month during the last quarter of the calendar. What makes November remarkable is the fact that its moon is the closest ever to be seen by mankind. It is recorded at 356,508 kilometers or 221,524 miles from the closest site on Earth.
In line with this, the relationship between tides and moons are directly proportional which means that during a glowing phenomenon, huge tides are in place. During this period, the moon, the sun and the earth are aligned leading to the emergence of spring tides.
The next radiant event will happen on November 25, 2034.
