Eric
31st December 2009, 10:41 AM
The wait for once in a blue moon will end tonight.
It's the celestial way of ringing in 2010.
Merrymakers looking up tonight might be treated to fireworks and confetti, but everybody will get to enjoy a New Years Eve blue moon.
Well, as long as today's cloudy sky doesn't totally obscure it.
A blue moon refers to the second full moon in one month. The first full moon this month occurred on Dec. 2 and the second is today. The phenomenon only occurs every 2.7 years - hence the phrase "once in a blue moon." And it's rarer that the lunar event occurs on New Years Eve: around once every 20 years.
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Feliz Aņo Nuevo!!!
It's the celestial way of ringing in 2010.
Merrymakers looking up tonight might be treated to fireworks and confetti, but everybody will get to enjoy a New Years Eve blue moon.
Well, as long as today's cloudy sky doesn't totally obscure it.
A blue moon refers to the second full moon in one month. The first full moon this month occurred on Dec. 2 and the second is today. The phenomenon only occurs every 2.7 years - hence the phrase "once in a blue moon." And it's rarer that the lunar event occurs on New Years Eve: around once every 20 years.
http://i48.tinypic.com/24y8f7p.jpg
Feliz Aņo Nuevo!!!