{"id":646086,"date":"2023-02-06T22:18:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T22:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=646086"},"modified":"2023-02-06T23:03:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T23:03:59","slug":"what-is-a-micromoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/what-is-a-micromoon","title":{"rendered":"What is a micromoon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full snow moon lights up the night sky over Lawrence, Kan., Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. February&#8217;s full moon is so-named from Native American traditions because usually the heaviest snows fall in month. | Orlin Wagner, Associated Press Looking to the night sky between Monday and Tuesday, stargazers will be able to see the full moon. What makes February&#8217;s full moon so special is that it is a &#8220;micromoon.&#8221; What is a micromoon? When the full moon rises in February it will be at apogee, or the farthest point in its orbit around the Earth. This will make the moon appear smaller than usual, hence the name &#8220;micromoon.&#8221; According to science news site EarthSky , the moon will be 252,171 miles&nbsp;away, whereas the average distance is 237,700 miles between the Earth and the moon. The distance will make the moon appear smaller, per Space.com &#8212; up to 14% smaller than a supermoon. January&#8217;s moon was also a &#8220;micromoon.&#8221; When can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,1,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-news","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}