“Strawberry Moon”, “Honeymoon” or even “Pink Moon”. So many expressions to designate the same phenomenon: the full moon in June. This year you will be able to observe it on the night of Saturday to Sunday June 4 at 5:43 am But why that nickname?
No, the name “strawberry moon,” to use NASA’s English terms, does not imply that the Moon turns red with spots. If we call this phenomenon that way, it is because it coincided with the harvest of the fruit among the Native American tribes in the 1930s.
A “super strawberry moon” in 2022
And why “Rose Moon”? The reason is the same: these flowers, while popular on Valentine’s Day, don’t bloom until June.
What about “honeymoon”? It is again at this time of year when it is harvested. And if these words have come to designate the day after weddings, it is simply because many of them take place… In June.
Last year, the “Strawberry Moon” was even “super”: the term “large moon”, coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979 qualifies a fairly simple phenomenon to understand.
The lunar orbit is not perfect, that is to say, the distance between the Moon and the Earth is not fixed: it can oscillate between approximately 405,000 and 355,000 kilometers. When Earth’s only natural satellite is closest to Earth, it’s called a “supermoon” or, to put it more scientifically, “perigeo-syzygy.” The Moon is then larger and brighter than usual.
Source: BFM TV
