Moon Movement
06/18/2021 |
The Friday File: When the moon is full and passes closest to Earth, it’s called a supermoon. The technical term is perigee syzygy. On 5/25/21, perigee (when the moon is closest to Earth) was at 9:50pm EDT; the moon was 222,023 miles from Earth. But the moon wasn’t full and did not align with Earth and the Sun (syzygy) till 7:19am on the 26th. We missed perigee syzygy by hours!