万花筒 2012-05-07&05-09 “超级月亮”背后的科学

 It was last night, right here in World News, we told you about the super moon, well, tonight if you're lucky enough to have a clear sky, you have a quite show. But we want to know the science behind, Why it seem bigger, and brighter we've seen years.

Who can forget that famous flight, E.T. in silver white(solo ride), George Billy often got a moon, it's a wonderful life. --Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around, pull it down. And of course, there were Share who said we all said at one point .

--I've never seen the moon like that before. And if you look up into sky tonight, chances are : you'll be star-struck again, or should we say 'Moon Struck'. The Super moon, the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. And it turns out not all full moons are created equal, that's because the moon's orbit around the earth isn't a perfect circle, it's an ellipse. And tonight's moon known as 'Perigee¹ full moon' would be closest to the earth at the exact moment when it becomes full, and near 221,000 miles away, that's 17,000 miles closer than the typical full moon. And its proximity² that will give us a view,30%  brighter, 14% bigger, bigger than everything it illuminates³, look at these images from the last super moon, the trees to wolf, the people like specks⁴ on horizon that plane, imagining being on that flight, and it turns out there's more than a science the Super Moon, the ocean tides will be more extreme this weekend, but about those stories of full moon's bring out bizarre behavior. Come on, come on, Hey, Howl, howl, howl... It's all amid, say researchers. And one more spectacle on the sky they look for, those tiny spec's captured by NASA telescopes here. Those are fireballs meteor shower, all pieces of degree from Helios comment , this year, the people occur tonight into tomorrow, scientists say up to 40 to 60 meteors per hour, all of them perhaps so little more difficulty to spot, because that well lit, well defined sky.

1 perigee   

n.近地点

参考例句：

• The Moon reaches its absolute perigee once a year.月球每年有一次达到它的绝对近地点。
• Once the satellite reaches perigee,it will eject a small probe which enter the planet's atmosphere.当人造卫星达到近地点时，就会发射一根小探针，这根探针将进入行星的大气层。

2 proximity   

n.接近，邻近

参考例句：

• Marriages in proximity of blood are forbidden by the law.法律规定禁止近亲结婚。
• Their house is in close proximity to ours.他们的房子很接近我们的。

3 illuminates   

v.使明亮( illuminate的第三人称单数 )；照亮；装饰；说明

参考例句：

• The light shines on from over there and illuminates the stage. 灯光从那边照进来，照亮了舞台。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The sun illuminates the sky. 太阳照亮了天空。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 specks   

n.眼镜；斑点，微粒，污点( speck的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Minutes later Brown spotted two specks in the ocean. 几分钟后布朗发现海洋中有两个小点。 来自英汉非文学 - 百科语料821
• Do you ever seem to see specks in front of your eyes? 你眼睛前面曾似乎看见过小点吗？ 来自辞典例句