The third and last supermoon of the year will illuminate the sky on March 20, finishing off a trifecta of supermoons for 2019 that started in January.
Walk’s full moon additionally occurs on the same day from the spring equinox, welcoming in the season. The last time these two things occurred around the same day was March 1981.
The moon will seem more brilliant and bigger in the night sky and ideally no clouds and harsh climate will cloud the view. The nearest supermoon this year was in February.
Regardless of what timezone you’re in, look out for the supermoon at 9:43 pm ET on Wednesday.
Walk’s full moon is otherwise called the Full Worm Moon. Conventional and Native American names for each full moon of the year are inferred by how they followed the seasons. For this situation, the ground started to soften in March with the earthworms could appear, drawing more birds to feed, as per the Farmer’s Almanac. This moon is related with spring for that reason.
The landing of spring and the supermoon will likewise nearly coincide with an asteroid passing close to Earth, as per the Minor Planet Center. The asteroid, 2019 EA2, will zip by Earth at 190,246 miles away — closer than the moon. It’s 79 feet in distance across, slightly larger than the asteroid that streaked through the sky over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013.
It’s an aten asteroid,, or a close Earth space rock with an Earth-crossing orbit
In any case, the asteroid is relied upon to go by securely and without episode on March 21 and 22, depending on where you live.
