A Worm Moon
This just in from Space Weather News for March 10, 2009 (http://spaceweather.com):
WORM MOON: Tonight's full Moon has a special mame–the Worm Moon. It signals the coming of northern spring, a thawing of the soil, and the first stirrings of earthworms in long-dormant gardens. Step outside tonight and behold the wakening landscape. "Worm moonlight" is prettier than it sounds.
Sure enough, that's what it says in my handy list of "Moon Names". Next up: Pink Moon. Perhaps I should plan one of those "cunning pink parties" that one of my favorite cook books (Square Meals, by Jane and Michael Stern) tells me were all the rage earlier in the last century.
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on Friday, 13 March 2009 at 00.42
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Spring? First stirrings? Thawing soil? Hah!
We kicked off the week with three inches of #@!X]$% snow. The past two nights we broke records with single-digit, bone-chilling cold. Low teens tonight.
Brrr! Grrrr!
on Friday, 13 March 2009 at 13.41
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Well, I can't wait for the Pink Moon, but loyalty decrees that I favor Worm Moon, hail Coenorhabditis.
But I've also been waiting to observe geostationary satellites enter the "anti-sun," or earth's shadow at 22,300 miles, for it is then that they undergo flaring as they enter or leave this small pool of darkness in the sky. For us in the northern hemisphere, the geometry is best at about the time of the spring equinox, when the satellites are entering the shadow for us at about midnight. I hate to be a vulgarian, but Worm Moon is interfering with this activity.