class=”fecha”> BARCELONA NEWSPAPER
Sant Joan is the Christian version of the pagan celebration of the solstice, the longest day, the 2013 will be remembered for being recent astronomical superluna year, one of those rare days in a century when the moon show larger and brighter than ever and offers its most spectacular image.
Cape Sounion, Greece.
superluna-name taken from astrology and not astronomy-happens thanks to a conspiracy of elements: the time when the satellite in its rotation around the Earth passes closer to the planet, which is called perigee, but it also has to match that is in its full phase, that is, is when the Earth is directly between the Sun and the Moon. Yesterday, specifically, the phenomenon reached its peak half hour of the full moon to moon, at 13 am (11.00 GMT).
maketh OR EVENT / The spectacular Moon was last night clouds Catalunya where it was allowed to 356 991 kilometers, just 414 miles further than the March 19, 2011, one of the most spectacular superlunas are remembered and some doomsayers related to the earthquake in Japan, according to NASA, this year is 14% bigger than usual, and 30% brighter, but that has no relation to adverse natural phenomena or significantly influences at the level of the tides. The floods, according to the U.S. weather agency, are more related to the winds with the Moon.
superlunas frequency depends on the trajectory of the orbits of the Moon around the Earth. It may happen that there superlunas several years in a row and then stop for long periods if any. The next is expected on August 10, 2014, but the closest to Earth will be in 2034. Just do not be on Sant Joan.
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