Blue Moon...tonight @ 9:04 EST
*Blue Moon Tonight
**Author: *Julie Sevrens Lyons *Source: *Mercury News (CA)
*Title: *BLUE MOON TONIGHT
First thing's first: It isn't blue.
And really, it isn't all that rare.
But the astronomical event that was the inspiration for the Marcels'
timeless doo-wop hit - and is the namesake of a beer, a bluegrass band and
even an alpaca breeding ranch - will appear in North America at 6:04 PDT
tonight, after an absence of several years.
It's a blue moon, the second full moon in a calendar month.
What makes tonight's lunar occurrence particularly cool is that only the
Americas will have one this week: Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia won't
get a blue moon until late June. And residents of New Zealand will have to
wait until the end of July to see one.
