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Saturday, May 5, 2012

‘Super’ Super Moon to Make an Appearance Saturday

Full moon will be closest to Earth in nearly 20 years.

Grab your telescopes and cameras and look to the heavens Saturday night. That’s when we’re in for another “Super Moon.” Astronomers are saying that this Super Moon will be even more super than usual. “The last full moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993,” Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington D.C. told USA Today. This Super Moon (a phrase coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979) will appear especially large because the moment of perigee—when the moon is closest to the Earth in its monthly rotation—will coincide with the appearance of a perfectly full moon, Smithsonian points out. During last year’s Super Moon on March 19, 2011, for comparison, the perigee and full moon were 50 minutes apart. On …

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

MAMS Students Get up Close with NASA Moon Rocks

Local students get an up close look at a national treasure.

A national treasure made an appearance in a Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School classroom thanks to the combined hobbies of two teachers. MAMS teachers, Patricia Hillyer, seventh grade, and Paul Loeb, physical education, gave students a closer look at outer space through the Lunar Rock Loan Program from NASA. The two teachers originally planned to show off Loeb’s extensive collection of space memorabilia to students while learning about lunar rocks and meteorites relationship to what we find on Earth. “After he [Loeb] read about my adventure on the Vomit Comet, he told me how he was interested in the space program. I jumped at the opportunity to have him bring in his collection to show my students whatever he had. Then I found out about the …

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