Count Deiro wrote: "Closest approach in twenty years."
Sky & Telescope, March 1993, p. 73:
"When the Moon is full on the night of the 7th it is also at its closest
perigee (nearest Earth) for the whole year and therefore at its biggest
and brightest. The difference, however, may not be enough to notice with-
out actually measuring the Moon's apparent diameter."
Moonstruck*,
Bernd
* not (yet) really ;-)
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