Super Moon 2012

[gigabite]

Celestial Navigation Data for 2012 May 6 at 4:26:00 UT
MOON 67 21.0 S18 23.6 = Bolivia
Perigee May 6 3:34 356953 km ++ F- 0h

[RL3AO]

Oh no, the moon is a few thousand km closer to earth (356k compared to 360 on avg.) at that particular perigee then the other ones that year. Run...

[gigabite]

LOL, Washington, D.C. has the same average temperature as Miami, but it does not snow much in Miami.

[gigabite]

Oh no, the moon is a few thousand km closer to earth (356k compared to 360 on avg.) at that particular perigee then the other ones that year. Run...

I understand your point, but I would put it like this. The 2012 super moon is 72 Kilometers further away than the decadal average super moon and 379 kilometers further away than the super moons in 2005 (356571 km)and 2011(356577 km)that correlated to tsunamis. The 2005 super moon was preceded by the December 26, 2004 tsunamis. There has not been a super moon this far from earth in over a decade.

[RL3AO]

How can it possibly correlate though? The 2005 super moon occurred two weeks AFTER the tsunami, which means it was at apogee when the tsunami occurred. The moon is only at an unusually close distance to earth (compared to normal) for a few hours at most. Even at that point the gravitational effect is very small compared to a usual perigee.

[gigabite]

I see, so in 2004 the moon was at apogee, New, and near perihelion, good point, so there is only a 50 percent correlation, between a sub 356600 km perigee, and tsunamis in the past decade. That means there was an increase in dynes both 2004 and in 2011 in opposite directions one toward the Sun, and one away from the Sun.

I think this time it will be crossing from water to land. That always kicks up the global earthquake count.

[RL3AO]

Either way, its cool to know someone else on here knows the difference between apogee and perihelion.

[gigabite]

Tidal Bulge
This is a simulation of the Tidal Bulge. The thickness of the bulge is not a constant. One issue that may affect the bulge around the super moon is acceleration or more precisely the change in acceleration which is some times called jerk