One of my brothers passed this on to me. Sounds like a wonderful ADITL
event to me. You all might want to reconsider the Sunny-16 rule on this
one, though. Ken.
>RARE EVENT!
>
>This year will be the first full moon to occur on the winter solstice,
>Dec. 22, commonly called the first day of winter. Since a full moon
>on the winter solstice occurred 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 it's
>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 7tronger
>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 the Wyoming Territory.
>
>In laymen'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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