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Full Moon Tonight: “Year’s Biggest Full Moon, Mars Create Sky Show” – “Red planet will join supersize [*]”wolf moon.”

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Adobe Moon In The City Poster
Adobe Moon In The City Poster
c. 2010 LasVegasBuffetClub

Reprinted from The National Geographic Website
Story by, Andrew Fazekas
for National Geographic News
Published January 29, 2010

The biggest full moon of 2010 will rise in the east tonight, and it’ll appear with a bright sidekick: Mars will cozy up just to the left of the supersize moon.

January’s full moon is also called the [*]wolf moon, according to Native American tradition associating this month’s full moon with wolves howling in the cold midwinter. (Take a moon myths and mysteries quiz.)

The 2010 wolf moon will appear 30 percent brighter and 14 percent larger than any other full moon this year, because our cosmic neighbor will actually be closer to Earth than usual.

The moon will be at its closest perigee—the nearest it gets to our planet during its egg-shaped orbit—for 2010 at 4:04 a.m. ET Saturday, reaching a distance of 221,577 miles (356,593 kilometers) from Earth read more from National Geographic.

“American Indians gave names to each of the full moons to keep track of the passing year. The names are associated with the entire month until the next full moon occurs. Since a lunar month averages 29 days, the dates of the moons change from year to year.”

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Beautiful Cherokee Woman
Beautiful Cherokee Woman
WWU photograph

*In the Cherokee language the name for January’s Full Moon is: unolvtana or cold moon. Information is from Western Washington University.

Moonrise 4:56 P.M. – Moonset 6:40 A.M. Las Vegas time.

The [c.2010-LasVegasBuffetClub – Adobe Moon in the City] poster is available for purchase. The full moon in this poster was photographed in Las Vegas in the 90s. The image was inserted into it’s “frame” with a Photoshop type application. The poster is 24″x36″.