The full moon on Monday, July 3, will mark a series of four supermoons in a row.
Supermoons occur because the orbit of the moon around Earth is not a perfect circle; as a result of Earth's gravitational influence, the moon's orbit is elliptical, appearing like an elongated circle or oval. This means there are times in the moon's 27-day orbit that it is closer to Earth and other times that it is further away. A supermoon happens when the moon is both in the full moon phase of its 29.5 day lunar cycle and is at perigee, the closest point to Earth in its orbit.
After July, the next supermoon will rise on Tuesday, August 1 in the form of the Full Sturgeon Moon. Espanak said that during this supermoon, the distance between Earth and its natural satellite will be 222,158 miles .on Aug. 30. This will be a particularly special event for moonwatchers as it will see the moon at its closest during this"supermoon summer" period, at just 222,043 miles away.
Just after summer 2023 draws to a close on Sept. 23, so too does this festival of supermoons, which ends on Sept. 28 with the rise of September's Full Corn Moon when the moon will be 224,657 miles from Earth. The Full Corn Moon will also mark the final supermoon of 2023, with the next supermoon scheduled to fall on Sept. 18, 2024, according toNext year will only have two supermoons, with the next after September occurring a month later on Oct. 18, 2024.
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