On Christmas Day, there was a full moon, the first since 1977. The moon will peak at 6:11 a.m.
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Christmas Eve Forecast: Record-shattering warmth today
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in some parts of the country, but in others it feels more like a typical spring day. Green Christmas wins out this year with record-breaking temperatures making for a holiday that could get Heat Miser singing.
Despite dire warnings circulating on social media, NASA says a 3,600-foot-long asteroid passing by Earth on Christmas Eve will not strike the planet – and therefore will not snuff out all life on Earth. The next Christmas full moon won’t come around until 2034, NASA said. When the Full Cold Moon appears, winter has taken hold and temperatures have plummeted. “That full moon happened on December 25, 1977”. We just missed a full moon on Christmas 19 years ago; instead, the full moon fell on Christmas Eve. The next full moon on Christmas won’t occur until 2034.
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Today’s full moon, the last of the year, is called a Full Cold Moon because it occurs during the beginning of winter.
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“This is one of those cycles of the cosmos that every once in a while, it winds around and falls on a day that we consider a holiday or important – Christmas being one of them.”
The event will end a year of unusual lunar activity including a total solar eclipse in March which many people were unable to see properly in the United Kingdom due to cloud. Since then, the moon has continued to affect the tides on Earth. Of course “cold” is relative these days. The discovery has suggested that the lunar surface is more miscellaneous as compared to the one that emerged from studies after the Apollo and Luna missions.
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The other cool thing about this full moon is that the moon will be far to the north. This is because the earth’s axis is tilted to its orbit around the sun. It will set at approximately 7:03 am ET on Christmas Day.
