Should We Be Worried About The Number Of Supermoons?

Should we be worried about the number of supermoons? I saw an article about another one recently, and I’m pretty sure we’ve had something like twenty of them so far this year. I’m not feeling too good about that.

After all, though I never pay too much attention to these things, I get the idea that these are supposed to be abnormal conditions where the moon appears really, really big. But…if the conditions are abnormal, why do they seem to be happening all the time?

I don’t remember hearing about supermoons all the time in the past. I don’t remember ever hearing about them more than a certain number of years ago. Maybe we just didn’t talk about them then, or maybe we spread the word more now. Or, maybe there is some kind of situation we should be concerned about.

“The moon is going to appear super big tonight because it’s orbit is decaying and it’s eventually going to crash into the earth!” (Note: I don’t actually suspect that this is happening.)

Either way, I’m not really worried enough to look into this, but I’m mildly concerned. It’s probably all just a bunch of media crap, though.

Supermoon.