31st October 2020
By: Haris Ahmad
Tonight, a blue moon will appear for all time zones on Earth. This astronomical event has last happened for all time zones in 1944 and won’t happen again until the year 2039 for all time zones.
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| https://www.universetoday.com/20321/blue-moon/ |
It sure will be a spooky one taking into account that Halloween is right around the corner. Blue moons are rare since they appear once every 2.5 years on average. The last seen blue moon for a specific time zone was in March 2018.
The moon will ‘not’ turn blue itself. The blue color can be seen due to t the scattering of the light coming from the moon by smoke or dust particles in our planet’s atmosphere. Such effects are not at all related to the moon’s phases.
Moreover, this moon also qualifies for the title of a ‘mini-moon’ since it will occur when the moon is approximately at the farthest point from Earth in its orbit. The mon will be approximately 406,394 km away from Earth which is significantly farther away than its average distance of about 384,400 km.
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| https://slate.com/technology/2014/05/close-encounter-what-if-the-moon-orbited-much-closer-to-earth.html |
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