May 19th, 2008
Smallest, farthest full moon on May 19
Tonight’s full moon is the smallest and farthest full moon for all of 2008.
In the course of one month, the moon’s distance from Earth varies by about 50,000 kilometers – that’s 30,000 miles. Tonight, the full moon is also farthest from Earth for the month. That’s why tonight’s full moon is the smallest full moon of the year.
Around the world tonight, the full moon lights up the night from dusk till dawn. The precise moment for this full moon is 2:11 Universal Time on May 20. For the Central Time Zone in North America, that places the full moon at 9:11 p.m. this Monday evening.
Full moons recur in periods of about 29.5 days, but the moon returns to the farthest point in its orbit every 27.5 days. This variation will cause the full moons to come a bit closer to Earth and to loom a bit larger in our sky with every passing month. Seven full moons after the one tonight, we’ll see the closest and largest full moon of 2008 on December 12.
By the way, tonight’s full moon is the 3rd of 4 full moons to fall between the June solstice and the September equinox.
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16 Responses to “Smallest, farthest full moon on May 19”
I knew something was fishy when grandma wanted to take out those policies on me…
i hope they get released penniless and are forced out onto the streets, where some elderly dude with a truck makes them sign a life insurance policy…
I guess I was practicing the Internet Tradition: Anything sufficiently moronic is actually brilliantly ironic, and anything meant to be ironic is 100% Dead Serious.
pica!? Try as I might, I just can’t find any kind of racial reference in your post. Maybe “$X” is some obscure racial slur. Hmmm.
i hope those old ladies die in jail uncomfortably without prescription drugs or make-up.
asshole
That’s your choice, and I hope it’s the right one. I’m not worried about it because, overall, cervical cancer in the US is rare and readily cured due to the preventive care women get in this country.Given the relatively small upside, and the high cost, I don’t see a benefit on vaccinating people.
An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, along with the results of a 3 year study (in the same issue) raises questions about how effective the vaccine really is at preventing cancer. In the larger FUTURE II trial,6 rates of grade 2 or 3 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia or adenocarcinoma in situ were 1.3 in vaccinated women and 1.5 in unvaccinated women, an efficacy of 17%.permalinkBobCollins (3 children) [+]BobCollins 1 point 1 year ago [-]If you read further, you’ll find that the FUTURE studies cover women, many of whom were already sexually active and the small statistical benefit of the vaccine is likely due to previous exposure to the virus. The subgroup of women who were not yet sexually active had an efficacy of nearly 100% to the HPV types claimed.Assuming that you are vaccinating pre-sexual women, it’s the other issues that are more important: how long does the vaccine last and what is the actual risk from the HPV types not vaccinated against.
Dude. Reddit’s barely big enough for one Pica.
Great skies over the Northern UK tonight - very clear and crisp. Venus is to the left of the Moon and Mercury can be seen just below the moon.
one of them has a nice jew schnozz going. oy vey, a jew in a sleezy finance-related crime, who’da thought!
The truth is that the state will pay for their prescription drugs and health care while in prison.
So they only got caught because they got greedy and knocked off two people instead of one. Nice.
Should I? No.Will I? Oh yes.Better not let the kids see Uranus.I’m so sorry.
Yes, just saw it in the way back home, Venus was quite noticeable.