Get ready to field dumb questions from your friends on this one next week: ================== Will March 19 'Supermoon' Trigger Natural Disasters? http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20110310/sc_space/willmarch19supermoontriggern... from space.com "On March 19, the moon will swing around Earth more closely than it has in the past 18 years, lighting up the night sky from just 221,567 miles (356,577 kilometers) away. On top of that, it will be full. And one astrologer believes it could inflict massive damage on the planet. Richard Nolle, a noted astrologer who runs the website astropro.com, has famously termed the upcoming full moon at lunar perigee (the closest approach during its orbit) an "extreme supermoon." When the moon goes super-extreme, Nolle says, chaos will ensue: . . ." ================ Note: Maybe Daniel T can remind us on Meuss's Astro Alogrithms II chapter on the frequency of extreme Moons. I do not have the time to track it down again. How many times has extreme perigee occurred and we are all still here? Clear Skies - Kurt