Simac

By Simac

MiniMoon

The Moon orbits the Earth in an elliptical orbit. Technically they actually orbit each other around a common point known as the barycentre which is located about 3/4 of the way from the Earth's core to its surface.
Occasionally the full Moon coincides with the closest point on its orbit around us. This marks a special event called 'the press and media go mad about a so-called Supermoon, telling us that it appears massively bigger than normal'. Well today's full Moon coincided with the most distant point in its orbit around us. Not a peep from the press.
So I'm bigging up a tiny Minimoon when it appears massively smaller than usual. 
It's all rubbish of course, to the naked eye the full Moon always looks much the same size but you can't really fill a few column inches by saying that. 

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