Al-Ujairi Scientific Center announced that the last giant moon for this year will be during this month, as it will appear next Friday 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter.
Director of Public Relations and Media at the center, Khaled Al-Jamaan, told KUNA today, Monday, that the moon will be at its closest point to Earth at all this year on Friday, noting that this phenomenon will return once more in July 2023.
He explained that the distance between the Earth and the Moon this month is 360,549 km, noting that the average distance between the Earth and the Moon is 400,384 km, indicating that the reason for this is due to the Moon’s orbit around the Earth, as the Moon is sometimes close to the Earth and sometimes away from it at varying distances from month to month and from year to year.
He mentioned that the closest distance to the moon from the earth is called “perihelion,” while the moon at its closest point to the earth at all is called the “giant moon.” He pointed out that this approach to the earth is limited to its effect only on tidal phenomena in the sea.
