The full moon this Saturday (12) will be a Pink Microlua which means that our satellite will appear to be smaller and less brilliant in the sky this weekend.
THE microlyua occurs when a full moon coincides with the moment when The moon is at its most distant point from the earth the heyday, since the orbit of the moon around the earth is not a perfect circle, but an elliptical path. The phenomenon is the opposite of the Super Luma – which are the largest and most brilliant lunar events of the year, when the satellite is at its nearest point, the perigue.
During each 27 -day orbit around the earth, the moon reaches the heyday when it is about 405,500 km and the perigue when it is about 363,300 km from our planet. However, the exact distance of these points varies.
A microlyua may seem up to 14% lower and 30% less bright than a superfault.
Pink Microlua
Although it received that name, the Pink Microlua You should not have any change in your color.
In fact, the nickname of Pink moon was given to the full moon of indigenous tribes from the northeast of the United States, due to the flowers Flox, native to this region, which begin to bloom with the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere And they are pink.
The Full Moon of April still receives other names, mostly related to the beginning of the new season in the northern hemisphere.
Some call it Moon of the grass in reference to the return of green after winter. She can also receive the name of Fish moon for this is the time when fish go up to spawn, a phenomenon known as Piracema.
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This content was originally published in Microlua Rosa: the smallest moon of the year is born this weekend; Learn more at CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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