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Title: “SUPER MOON”
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on December 04, 2017, 07:14:34 pm

from The Washington Post....

See images of the supermoon around the world

Sunday, December 03, 2017

SUNDAY'S FULL MOON is the first of three consecutive supermoons, the others will occur on January 1st and January 31st, 2018.

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The supermoon behind the Uppatasanti Pagoda in Naypyitaw, Burma. A supermoon is a full moon at its closest distance to the earth, so the moon appears larger than usual.
 — Photograph: Aung Shine Oo/Associated Press.


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The supermoon rises over a highway near Rangoon, Burma. — Photograph: Ye Aung Thu/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.

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The supermoon is seen in the sky while a farmer walks with cows in Naypyitaw, Burma. — Photograph: Aung Shine Oo/Associated Press.

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A multiple exposure image shows a supermoon near the Buddha statue in Rangoon, Burma. — Photograph: Nyein Chan Naing/European Pressphoto Agency-EFE.

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A supermoon is seen behind plants on a balcony of a residential block in Hong Kong. — Photograph: Anthony Wallace/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.

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The supermoon is seen in Jakarta, Indonesia. — Photograph: Adi Weda/European Pressphoto Agency-EFE.

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The supermoon seen behind Christmas lights in Manila. — Photograph: Mark R. Cristino/European Pressphoto Agency-EFE.

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Visitors view the supermoon from a gondola of a Ferris wheel at an amusement park in Tokyo. — Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/European Pressphoto Agency-EFE.

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A Rohingya refugee looks at the full moon with a child in tow at Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. — Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters.

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A supermoon rises over the World Heritage Site Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, South Africa. — Photograph: Nic Bothma/European Pressphoto Agency-EFE.

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The supermoon over a building in the Israeli city of Netanya. — Photograph: Jack Guez/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.

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The full moon over Al-Ameen Mosque and St. Gregory church in Beirut. — Photograph: Nabil Mounzer/European Pressphoto Agency-EFE.

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A supermoon over the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates. — Photograph: Giuseppe Cacace/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.

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The full moon behind Christmas lights in Marseille, France. — Photograph: Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters.

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The full moon over Beirut. — Photograph: Wael Hamzeh/European Pressphoto Agency-EFE.

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A fishing boat sails as the supermoon rises in Larnaca, Cyprus. — Photograph: Katia Christodoulou/European Pressphoto Agency-EFE.

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The supermoon in Larnaca, Cyprus. — Photograph: Katia Christodoulou/European Pressphoto Agency-EFE.

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The supermoon is seen through clouds in Rome. — Photograph: Giuseppe Lami/European Pressphoto Agency-EFE.

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The supermoon rises above the lighthouse of San Maurizio in Brunate, near Como, Italy. — Photograph: Matteo Bazzi/European Pressphoto Agency-EFE.

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The supermoon above Whitby Abbey in Whitby, northeast England. — Photograph: Danny Lawson/Press Association/Associated Press.

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The moon rises over the CN Tower and skyline in Toronto. — Photograph: Mark Blinch/Associated Press.

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The moon is seen above Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, after President Trump returned to Washington from New York. — Photograph: Yuri Gripas/Reuters.

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The supermoon rises behind the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. — Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/European Pressphoto Agency-EFE.

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The supermoon in Buffalo, New York. — Photograph: Julio Cortez/Associated Press.

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The moon rises in its waxing gibbous stage behind a statue atop the Erie County Court Building in Buffalo. — Photograph: Julio Cortez/Associated Press.

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A 10-foot long, remote-controlled flying Santa makes a test flight past a setting moon over the ocean in Carlsbad, California. — Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters.

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