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It's once in a blue moon
Friday August 31, 2012 09:48:20 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: There's
something everyone does once in a blue moon. If you take that
idiom literally, Friday was the day to do what you do
occasionally.
Thousands Friday cherished watching the "blue moon", a phenomenon
when a full moon appears twice in a month.
"It is a normal full moon, except for the fact that it occurs
twice in a month," says C.B. Devgan of the Science Popularisation
Association Communicators and Educators (SPACE).
"The special thing about it is that it's once in two or
two-and-a-half years that a full moon appears twice in a month,"
he says.
"It is exciting, though the moon looks the same. The fact that
this is the blue moon makes it special," says Devika, a student.
However, the blue moon is not blue in colour, unless there is
volcanic ash in the atmosphere.
"In 1946, a writer for "Sky and Telescope" magazine declared a
blue moon to be the second full moon in a month with two of them,"
explains Devgan.
Some years even boast of two blue moons. This last happened in
1999, and it will occur again in 2018.
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