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partial eclipse of the strawberry moon

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presented by science at nasa

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on june 4th 2012 there's going to be a

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full moon

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according to native american folklore

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it's the strawberry moon so called

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because the short season for harvesting

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strawberries typically comes during the

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month of june

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this strawberry is going to have a bite

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taken out of it

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at 3am pacific daylight time not long

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before sunrise on monday june 4th the

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moon passes directly behind our planet

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a broad stretch of lunar terrain around

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the southern crater taiko will fall

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under the shadow of earth producing the

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first lunar eclipse of 2012.

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at maximum eclipse around 404 a.m

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pacific 37 of the moon's surface will be

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in the dark

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because only a fraction of the

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strawberry moon is shadowed astronomers

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call this a partial eclipse but it's

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totally beautiful

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the eclipse is visible in north and

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south america australia eastern parts of

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asia and all across the pacific ocean

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on the atlantic side of the united

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states the eclipse occurs just as the

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moon is setting in the west

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perfect timing for the moon illusion

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for reasons not fully understood by

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astronomers or psychologists low-hanging

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moons look unnaturally large when they

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beam through trees buildings and other

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foreground objects

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in fact a low moon is no wider than any

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other moon cameras prove it but the

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human brain insists otherwise

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the eclipsed moon hanging low in the

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west at daybreak on june 4th will seem

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extra large to u.s observers east of the

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mississippi

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the fact that the extra size is just an

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illusion in no way detracts from its

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visual appeal

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the sun earth moon alignment that causes

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this eclipse is the second of three

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rapid fire celestial lineups

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first there was the annular solar

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eclipse of may 20th when the moon moved

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between earth and the sun to turn our

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star into a ring of fire

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the lunar eclipse of june 4th reverses

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the order of the earth and moon so that

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the moon is eclipsed instead of the sun

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finally we have the transit of venus on

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june 5th and 6th when the second planet

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moves directly between the earth and

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sun backyard astronomy doesn't get much

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better than this

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wake up before dawn on june 4th and

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behold the eclipse of the strawberry

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moon

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