{"id":2897,"date":"2008-12-14T03:24:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2008-12-14T03:24:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T19:24:51","slug":"closest-full-moon-in-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/i-was-here\/2008\/12\/14\/closest-full-moon-in-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Closest Full Moon in 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The moon was supposedly appeared larger due to its orbit being nearer to earth by 30,000km according to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/7779294.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A full moon has occurred closer to the Earth than it has done at any time for the past 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Moon&#8217;s elliptical orbit means its distance from the Earth is not constant.<\/p>\n<p>It was a little over 350,000km away as it passed over the northern hemisphere, about 30,000km closer than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers said the moon would appear brighter and larger than usual, but the sky in the UK was almost completely covered by cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s full moon was predicted to appear up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full moons this year, according to Nasa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then took the pictures below without a tripod on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flifethrulens%2Falbumid%2F5279355639055205137%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" flashvars=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flifethrulens%2Falbumid%2F5279355639055205137%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moon was supposedly appeared larger due to its orbit being nearer to earth by 30,000km according to BBC report. A full moon has occurred closer to the Earth than it has done at any time for the past 15 years. The Moon&#8217;s elliptical orbit means its distance from the Earth is not constant. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-was-here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}