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The last supermoon of 2022 will outshine NASA's favorite meteor shower Thursday night. To see both, you need a dark spot and good timing. (msn.com)
The last supermoon of 2022 will outshine NASA's favorite meteor shower Thursday night. To see both, you need a dark spot and goo
NASA says the Perseids fireballs are the best meteor shower. The supermoon may outshine them, but you can still see both spectacles.
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The last supermoon of 2022 will outshine NASA's favorite meteor shower Thursday night. To see both, you need a dark spot and good timing.
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- The last supermoon of 2022 and the best meteor shower of the year both peak Thursday night.
- Perseids fireballs may disappear in the light of the full Sturgeon Moon, though a few will still blaze.
- There won't be another supermoon until August 2023.
A supermoon and a meteor shower will create a rare side-by-side celestial spectacle Thursday night. It's your last chance to see a supermoon for another year.
NASA says the Perseids are the best meteor shower, as Earth plows through a field of debris left behind by a comet, and 50 to 100 shooting stars streak across the sky when bits of comet burn up in the atmosphere. This year, however, the moon will appear to swell large and bright in the sky, outshining many of the fireballs.
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- Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing girls and trafficking them to have sex with Jeffery Epstein.
- Maxwell, the daughter of late media mogul Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine is well connected with elite businessmen like Elon Musk.
- In 1991, Robert Maxwell was found dead in the Atlantic Ocean after falling from the luxury yacht he named after his daughter.
After years of scrutiny over her relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison.
Maxwell, convicted in December of sexually abusing girls and trafficking them in order to have sex with Epstein, was also fined $750,000 and will be on probation for five years after her release.
Maxwell, a well-connected British socialite, posed for a picture with Elon Musk at a 2014 Oscars after-party and reportedly attended as many as three writing retreats — one of which was in 2018 — hosted by Jeff Bezos.
She's also been accused of connecting Epstein with his alleged victims and serving as the now-deceased sex-offender's madam. Maxwell worked with Epstein to "recruit, groom and ultimately abuse" children, her indictment states. Maxwell has denied these allegations.
Epstein, already a registered sex offender, was found dead in his jail cell after an apparent suicide on August 10. At the time of his death, he'd been awaiting trial in a New York jail.
But Maxwell's family has plenty of scandals of its own, dating from the 1990s. Keep reading to learn more about the Maxwell family.
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"Sadly, this year's Perseids peak will see the worst possible circumstances for spotters," Bill Cooke, who leads the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, said in a statement.
At best, Cooke said, observers in North America will probably see 10 to 20 meteors per hour.
"Bright moon phases are bad for meteor showers as they wash out the dimmer meteors," Mike Hankey, operations manager for the American Meteor Society, told CNN.
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The last supermoon of 2022 will outshine NASA's favorite meteor shower Thursday night. To see both, you need a dark spot and good timing. (msn.com)
The last supermoon of 2022 will outshine NASA's favorite meteor shower Thursday night. To see both, you need a dark spot and goo
NASA says the Perseids fireballs are the best meteor shower. The supermoon may outshine them, but you can still see both spectacles.
www.msn.com
"A full or almost full moon dominates one part of the sky, making that part undesirable for observing meteors. The full moon also lasts the entire night, leaving no hours of complete darkness, which is preferred," Hankey added.
When the Perseids peak on Friday and Saturday night, the moon will still appear full. The shower continues until September 1, so there's still time to see a few shooting stars.
To see both the moon and the meteors most clearly, it helps to go somewhere dark, far from city lights. But this year is probably not worth a big trip for the Perseids, NASA's statement said.
A super Sturgeon moon takes the stage Thursday
There is no official definition of a supermoon, but the term usually refers to a full moon occurring at perigee — the closest point to Earth in its orbit. It's a small difference in distance, but at this point the moon can appear up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than it does at apogee, its farthest point from Earth, according to TimeandDate.com.
The big white orb hanging in the sky Thursday is also a Sturgeon Moon — a name for any full moon in August, historically peak fishing season for the hearty sturgeon in the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. The full-moon name comes from Indigenous groups in those regions, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.
The moon will probably look biggest when it's hovering closest to the horizon, thanks to an optical illusion. It will shine brightest at 9:36 p.m. ET, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.
The next supermoon will occur in August 2023, according to In-The-Sky.org.
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