How to see the supermoon — and shooting stars, too
By Joshua Melvin jmelvin@bayareanewsgroup.com One woman was dead and another left with major injuries after a head-on collision late Saturday in Half Moon Bay, police said. The collision on Highway 1 near Miramontes Point Road was reported just before
6, 2012 – The biggest and brightest full moon of the year arrived Saturday night as Earth's celestial neighbor passed about 15000 miles closer to Earth than average. That has made the moon appear bigger than usual. (/Associated Press) Correction:
It was a busy night for our bars what with Derby Day, Cinco de Mayo and the less-toasted
Astronomy | dime | So, tonight is the so-called Supermoon, when the Moon happens to be full at the same time it's at perigee, the point in its orbit closest to the Earth. This mak.
(YouTube link) Astronaut John Young, commander of Apollo 16, tells a story during the April 1972 mission. Contains NSFW language that you won't hear in any museum exhibit I know of.
