King Moon
January 31, 2019
| Credit | NASA/Aubrey Gemignani |
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| Historical Date | November 14, 2016 |
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A November 2016 "supermoon" sets over the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC.
A supermoon occurs when the moon’s orbit is closest (perigee) to Earth. Early Monday morning, the moon was the closest it has been to Earth since 1948 and it appeared 30 percent brighter and 14 percent bigger than the average monthly full moon.
