Biggest Full Moon This Year

Friday we witnessed our biggest full moon of 2008. The Earth, Moon and Sun are held together by gravity. This keeps them in an orbit where neither collide but keep in a natural movement. This keeps us moving around the sun and the moon going around us. The moon takes a trip the whole way around Earth every 29.5 or so days.

Now normally the moon is around 380,000+ kilometers away from us. On Friday however it was only 350,000 kilometers away from us. The moon was also 14% times bigger and 30% brighter, according to NASA’s research. Now as the moon controls how the tides move, as it was closer the tide was higher.

Below are some moon facts you may find interesting to read!
1. The moon is always moving away from Earth; but interestingly it only moves 4cm a year. However the part I found really cool is; as the sun continues to get bigger it pushes the moon back towards Earth. This will eventually cause too much pressure and the moon will deteriorate and break apart.
2. As many of you will have heard, some star signs are effected by the moon; thus turning them crazy! This is a false statement and no real proof has been shown towards this accusation. There is also no such thing as werewolves coming out on a full moon; or at least I haven’t seen any - there always is a chance
3. Due to high tides caused by the full moon; there is more pollution on beaches.

You can see a video of the full moon below: