"Supermoon" to Grace the Night Sky on Saturday (+Video)

Saturday night the full moon will be larger than normal. 
The so-called ‘supermoon’ will light up the night sky on that night.

It’s  coming on August 29, 2015
 
A supermoon happens when there’s a Full Moon or New Moon at the same time as the Moon’s closest approach to the Earth; perigee. 
If a Full Moon or new moon is closer than 360,000 kilometers (ca. 223,694 miles) at perigee, it is considered a supermoon.

 This August Full Moon is also known as Green Corn Moon, 
Grain Moon, Full Strugeon Moon. The event reaches its peak at 18:35 UTC when the moon will be positioned opposite side of the Earth. As the moon comes close to Earth, it will appear bigger and brighter than usual on this day. 
The next Super Moon will occur on Sept. 28, 2015.
http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/super-full-moon.html

On Jan. 4, 1912, the most extreme supermoon in 1,400 years may have led to extreme tidal activity that dislodged icebergs from a glacier in Greenland and pushed them southward into the ocean currents and ultimately towards Titanic’s path from New York to London on its maiden voyage
http://www.livescience.com/18862-supermoon-titanic-disaster.html

A number of natural disasters have been attributed to supermoons, however. Both the Japanese earthquake and tsunami from 2011 and the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia hit in the weeks prior to a supermoon.

Other events linked to the lunar orbit include cyclone Katrina and the 1992 earthquake in Turkey.

Scientists have largely debunked this theory, although Garvin conceded there were “minor” effects.

“According to the most detailed studies by terrestrial seismologists and volcanologists, the combination of the moon being at its closest to Earth in its orbit, and being in its ‘full moon’ configuration (relative to the Earth and sun), should not affect the internal energy balance of the Earth since there are lunar tides every day.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/supermoon-natural-disasters-tsunami-earthquake-volcanic-eruptions-480659

Image credit: NASA