It’s going to be a special moment for skygazers as after 18 years the moon will appears bigger. It is said that on March 19. Moon will be closets to the earth and will look 16% larger than usual.

M P Birla Planetarium Director, Mr D. P. Duari, said that last time it was on March 8,1993was the full moon day when moon was closest to the earth.

Mr. Duari explained that moon goes round in an elliptic orbit around the earth which makes it come closer to the blue planet and the closest point being termed as the perigee.

He also said that usually the moon is 3, 84,440 km away from the earth but during perigee the distance can close to around 3,57,000 km.

He further mentioned that on March 19, moon will be at its perigee in addition to the full moon and the distance counted between earth and moon would be around 3,56,577 km, which is the closest in the past 18 years.

He refuse all rumors which supports that closeness of moon to the earth will cause severe storms, earthquakes, volcanoes and natural disasters as decrease in the distance is very small and there is nothing to fear about moon coming close to the earth.

Although he accepts that there would be marginal increase in the heights of tides but it does not means that it will lead to some big natural calamity.