Friday, March 18, 2011

Another super moon

So much talk these days about super moons and perigrees, as tomorrow, March 19 the moon will be full at perigree and is called an extreme super moon. Lots of speculation therefore as ebbs and flows of ocean tides are affected by the moon's gravity, and some say volcano response is higher when there's a full moon, while others say it's just rubbish.

Many observe the 'unusual' moon halo these days and there are attempts to give meaning to it. It is said that in the years 1955 and 1992, calamities occurred on the eve of super moon, cyclone Tracy hit Australia in 1974, when it again occurred, etc.

It's all coincidence say the astronomers. So we could just maybe drag an easy chair and look at an unusually large full moon tomorrow evening.

But if it rains hard in Marinduque as that extreme super moon glows, one could only hope that, may God forbid, we don't hear about the earth dams breaking.