Happy New Year
January 1st, 2010
Photo by Stephen Nowers/AlaskaDispatch.com
The partially eclipsed blue moon sets behind the Talkeetna Mountains on New Year’s Eve, 2009.
According to Dr. Tony Phillips on the Science@NASA website “[t]he modern astronomical Blue Moon occurs in some month every 2.5 years, on average. A Blue Moon falling precisely on Dec. 31st, however, is much more unusual. The last time it happened was in 1990, and the next time won’t be until 2028.”
