The March full moon will be the first of three straight full moon supermoons.
The moon's closeness to Earth, naturally, makes it look extra-big and extra-bright.The first supermoon of the year is coming to a sky near you Monday.March’s full moon will reach peak fullness at 1:48 p.m. EDT Monday, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac."So look for the spectacularly bright moon as it rises above the horizon that evening," the Almanac said.
Monday, our moon will be"only" about 222,081 miles miles from Earth, which is about 16,000 miles closer than average. Bigger and brighter than a typical full moon, the term “supermoon” was coined in 1979 by astrologer Richard Nolle. It's become an increasingly more popular and media-friendly term in the decades since.For millennia, people across the world, including Native Americans, named the months after nature’s cues. According to the Old Farmers' Almanac, full moon names in our part of the world date back to the Native Americans who lived in the northern and eastern USA.
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