Tonight the moon looks incredible. There is a real dark ring around it and it is so bright. If you haven't looked outside at the moon yet tonight. Take a look. It is worth feeling the cool air. It will be the biggest and brightest of 2009!
Earth, the moon and the sun are all bound together by gravity, which keeps us going around the sun and keeps the moon going around us as it goes through phases. The moon makes a trip around Earth every 29.5 days.
But the orbit is not a perfect circle. One portion is about 31,000 miles (50,000 km) closer to our planet than the farthest part, so the moon's apparent size in the sky changes. Saturday night (Jan. 10) the moon will be at perigee, the closest point to us on this orbit.
It will appear about 14 percent bigger in our sky and 30 percent brighter than some other full moons during 2009, according to NASA. (A similar setup occurred in December, making that month's full moon the largest of 2008.)
This month's full moon is known as the Wolf Moon from Native American folklore. The full moon's of each month are named. January's is also known as the Old Moon and the Snow Moon.
She is on-the-go! To me there is nothing sweeter than seeing little Caroline come around the corner. My big girl had her well check and weighed in at a woppinn 17.9 (15th percentile) and was in the 90th percentile for her height.
What you see here is Eddie throwing a cup full of water at Caroline.
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Poor Caroline getting water in the face. That happens a lot around here, too!
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