Tonight: The Rise of the 2013 "Mini-Moon"

The final Full Moon of 2013 occurs tonight, and along with it comes something special: the most distant and visually smallest Full Moon of 2013. Why doesn't the annual "mini-moon" receive the same fanfare and hype that the yearly perigee - or do you say Proxigean to be uber-obscure - "supermoon" does? The smallest Full […]