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Lunar Hurrah!

This year will be the first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 
22, commonly called the first day of winter.  Since a full moon on the winter 
solstice occurred in conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon's 
orbit that is closest to Earth) The moon will appear about 14% larger than it 
does at apogee (the point in it's elliptical orbit that is farthest from the 
Earth) since the Earth is also several million miles closer to the sun at 
this time of the year than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon is about 
7% stronger making it brighter.  Also, this will be the closest perigee of 
the Moon of the year since the moon's orbit is constantly reforming.  If the 
weather is clear and there is a snow cover where you live (ha ha), it is 
believed that even car headlights will be superfluous.

On December 21st. 1866 the Lakota Sioux took advantage of this combination of
occurrences and staged a devastating retaliatory ambush on soldiers in the
Wyoming Territory.  In laymen's terms it will be a super bright full moon, 
much more than the usual AND it hasn't happened this way for 133 years!  Our 
ancestor's 133 years ago saw this.  Our descendants 100 or so years from now 
will see this again.  I'm excited, hope you might find this interesting too!

Remember this will happen December 22, 1999,..... Pass it on,
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