YUP, it DOES say OT up there, doesn't it??

These can be avoided by the use of a real e-mail address.

MAc, you listed the last 4 Moon's of the year on another thread. Could you list all 12 (err sometimes 13) here??

Chuck

And NO it ain't a command performance.....Unless of course you look at it that way.......;-)

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), August 27, 1999

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Am I mistaken or have we already had 2 blue moons this year?

-- Johnny (JLJTM@BELLSOUTH.NET), August 27, 1999.

I hear and obey, O Deleter of Wayward Threads 8-}] ---

Not only did the folks at NASA invent Tang(TM), but they also currently provide the curious with all sorts of cool info: Names for Full Moons

January - Wolf Moon

February - Snow Moon, Hunger Moon, Opening Buds Moon

March - Maple Sugar Moon, Worm Moon

April - Frog Moon, Pink Moon, Planter's Moon

May - Flower Moon, Budding Moon

June - Strawberry Moon

July - Blood Moon, Buck Moon

August - Moon of the Green Corn, Sturgeon Moon

September - Harvest Moon

October - Hunter's Moon, Moon of Falling Leaves

November - Beaver Moon

December - Cold Moon

(Chuck - check your inbox...)

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), August 27, 1999.

Thank you, sir.

C

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), August 27, 1999.

Chuck,

For what its worth here are a few more names of full moons in addition to the earlier list and what is on the NASA site.

January - Moon After Yule

February - Sucker-Spawning Moon

March - Lenten Moon, Pasch Moon

April - Egg Moon, Red Moon

July - Hay Moon

August - Grain Moon, Rice-Making Moon

November - Ice-Flowing Moon

December - Moon before Yule

Some names such as Wolf Moon, Budding Moon, Planting Moon, Harvest Moon may occur in the adjacent month. A lot of the names seem to come from Amerindian peoples. It would be nice to know whom the various names came from.

The Christian Science Monitor had an editorial around March this year explaining that a blue moon was the fourth full moon in a season and got changed to the current meaning of the second full moon in a month in a 1946 article as far as they could tell.

dandelion

-- (andy@turtle.gmu.edu), August 28, 1999.

More names for moons grouped by cultural source can be found at

http://soiroom.hyperchat.com/moons/moonpage.html

dandelion

-- (andy@turtle.gmu.edu), August 28, 1999.