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WASHINGTON (AP) -- There's a rare `blue moon' on Friday, a fitting wink to Neil Armstrong by the cosmic calendar.
That's the day of a private service for Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, who died last Saturday in Ohio at age 82.
A blue moon occurs when there's a second full moon in one calendar month. It won't happen again until July 2015. The full moon cycle is 29.5 days so a blue moon is uncommon and has come to mean something rare. The moon actually won't be colored blue.
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ellaydubya
(354 posts)What a send-off- "Once in a very Blue Moon". Even the moon honors our hero.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Thank you, Sir.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)malaise
(269,260 posts)Rec
Wilms
(26,795 posts)I noticed the moon last night and wondered if it would be full.
BumRushDaShow
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(29,876 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,601 posts)absyntheminded
(216 posts)"The moon actually won't be colored blue" .... for the trolling teabillies.