R.It is not about to change its size. Since its formation more than four billion years ago, it has maintained a medium diameter 2,159.2 miles. This is less than Los Angeles to New York. like NASA puts itIf the Earth is the size of the nickel, the moon will be the size of the coffee beans. But this does not mean that the moon cannot look larger or smaller – and on Saturday April 12, it will be relatively small, and what he calls the heavenly monitors. Micromon. Here is what you need to know.
On any specific night, the moon can seem to change its size – sometimes significantly. Thanks to the so -called The illusion of the moonIt may look particularly large – sometimes huge – when it is low in the sky, embraces the horizon, then it seems steadyly shrinking while ascending in the sky. But your eyes are greatly, your mind is lying. To prove this, just extend your arm, and close one eye, while continuing your finger. Your nails and moon will appear with the same size, regardless of the large or small moon size. What happens is the trick of the mind. On the horizon, you can make an unconscious comparison between the size of the moon and the size of things like homes and trees, with the appearance of the moon increases their dwarf. The moon’s height is the moon that excels on the sky vacuum. Your mind is how it concludes that it is shrinking.
Micromon is something else. AverageThe moon is 238,855 miles from Earth, but this number changes. The orbit of the moon is around the Earth ellipticalWith a low point, or evil, about 224,000 miles, a high point, or Eugeot, from 251,650 miles. When we see the moon in Perigee, closer to Earth, of course it looks larger – creating the phenomenon known as a SupermoonWhen the lunar disk appears to be 7 % larger and 15 % brighter than usually do. In APOGEE – which will be the moon this weekend – it will look 14 % smaller and 30 % dull, which creates an illusion Micromon.
This micromon will also be known as the name PinkAlthough this has nothing to do with its color. (This is different from Blood moonWhich occurs during the lunar eclipse, when the earth’s shadow falls on the surface of the moon, and the blue wavelengths of the sun that flow through our planet from the atmosphere while the lengths of the red wave pass, the moon’s retreat.
The pink micromoon will start height at dusk on Saturday, and reach it The greatest lighting at 8:22 pm EST. Space lovers will search up after that, just as they do for Supermoon. But not everyone is very excited. As a authority less than the astronomer Nile Diography Tyson Tweet again in 2017: “If the moon was completed last month a 16.0 -inch pizza, the” Super “moon this month will be 16.1 inches. I just say.” With this measure, Micromoon will be a 13.76 -inch pie. Enjoy it all.