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SDO
12th June 2013, 21:10
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This image is a view of the sun captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on Oct. 7, 2010, while partially obscured by our moon. A close look at the sharp edge of the moon against the sun shows the outline of lunar mountains. A model of the moon from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been inserted into the picture, showing how perfectly the moon's topology fits into the shadow observed by SDO. Credit: SVS/NASA Goddard You can find more versions of this juxtaposition at the Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio (http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011291/index.html) and more information about the image at NASA (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/sun_moon.html).

More... (http://sdoisgo.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-sun-and-moon.html)

DeDukshyn
12th June 2013, 21:54
page moved / removed from NASA site .. :(

ExomatrixTV
12th June 2013, 22:57
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Ellisa
13th June 2013, 02:00
Is this expected to have any influence on the tides etc. as is usual with the normal full moon?

Nick Matkin
13th June 2013, 08:48
My summary from a proper astronomy website (http://earthsky.org/tonight/is-biggest-and-closest-full-moon-on-june-23-2013-a-supermoon):

No significant difference to the naked eye, but will be very slightly bigger and brighter. (Graphic on the site shows how little the difference is.)

Tides likely to be higher/lower as happens every full moon. Nothing significant.

A SuperMoon (an invented term coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979) happens quite often (about every 413 days) and always has done. Nothing happened in the past, no one noticed in the past, so nothing to get exited about - sorry.

Nick

(Google is your friend - usually...)

Tesla_WTC_Solution
13th June 2013, 19:12
there is no definite evidence one way or the other, at this point,
that supermoon causes events on earth,

but I believe that the electromechanical interactions between the sun and earth and moon are not adequately understood.

in all likelihood it is possible that variations in the position and function of the heavenly bodies enacts changes down here on earth...