March 19/20 (Purim is the 20th) this year will see the moon at its closest point to Earth in 18 years, an event that is known as a “lunar perigee”.
On March 19, the moon will be just 356,577km away from Earth, an event that has internet theorists a-quiver with the possibility of extreme weather, earthquakes and volcanoes.
Not all scientists are convinced, however.
Though throughout the last year the world may have seen birds falling from the sky and schools of dead fish washing up on the shore, Pete Wheeler of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy says we shouldn’t be running to our bomb shelters just yet.
“There will be no earthquakes or volcanoes,” Mr Wheeler told news.com.au, “unless they are to happen anyway".
“(The Earth will experience) just a lower than usual low tide and a higher than usual high tide around the time of the event, but nothing to get excited about.”
But try telling that to anyone who suffered through the New England hurricane in 1938, or the Hunter Valley floods of 1955. Both happened during lunar perigrees.
Cyclone Tracy in 1974 and Hurricance Katrina in 2005 also coincided with SuperMoons, or at least, very close to.
Source and full article: News.com.au
I have noticed in recent days whether it is the financial analyst or the scientist they cannot begin to understand the command that Hashem has over the world. They are knowledgeable in their field, yet they do not allow room for ironies to happen. In this article the scientist does mention, "unless it ismenat to happen". this is the first time I have ever even heard of a reference to another greater underlying factor that may allow something to happen outside of the ordinary process.
ReplyDeleteperhaps it is this phenomena that the mathematician in new zealand calculated and wrote about that on march 20 there will be a big earth quake in the same place as before, man y dont believe but he also used maths and predicted the previous earthquake correctly.
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