The Christmas moon has an interesting feature - it is the smallest moon of the year
Avi Blizovsky
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Something special is happening in the sky these days. A rare event of a full moon at Christmas. Not that the NASA website that provided this figure has repented, but the Christmas moon has an interesting feature - it is the smallest moon of the year. More precisely, the moon will be full on December 26, the day after the holiday, but even on the 24th and 25th it is still It's close to full and it lights up the streets a little before sunset.
What makes the full moon small? The answer - its elliptical orbit. Although the astronomers say that the moon "circles" the earth, it does not do so in a circle but in a kind of ellipse. One side of the ellipse is 356,400 kilometers from the Earth - the perigee, while the other side is 406,700 kilometers from the Earth - it is called the apogee. The epogee is therefore 50 kilometers further from the earth than the perigee.
(The relative size of the moon at phrygia (above) and at apogee..
When the moon is full and near its apogee, we see a particularly small moon, as in the case of this month. Even the smallest moon is still very bright. It is brighter than Sirius - the brightest Saturn star in the sky, 25 thousand times. In such light it is also easy for Santa Claus to find the chimneys for the contents and he throws the gifts to the children.
Oh and one more thing in England they forbade Santa Claus to sit on children for fear of pedophiles and the chimneys in the cold countries were also replaced with cleaner heating methods.
