Blue Moon and Tiangong-1 Set to Light Up Sky Ahead of Easter (+Videos)

Blue Moon and Tiangong-1 Set to Light Up Sky Ahead of Easter

 Full Blue Moon Rises and Tiangong-1 Falls this weekend.

March Blue Moon will have something unusual associated with it: It will be a “Paschal” Moon.

Spring began on March 20, and 11 days later, the moon turns full. So this is also the first full moon of spring, and as such, it’s designated as the Paschal Moon. The first Sunday after the Paschal Moon is usually designated as Easter Sunday, as will indeed be the case on the very next day, April 1. 

https://www.space.com/40133-blue-moon-2018-paschal-moon-for-easter.html

But there is more …
The world is watching as Chinese space station Tiangong-1 hurtles toward Earth and makes a fiery reentry. Chances that space debris will hurt anybody are extremely slim, although when and where the space station’s remains will land is still unknown.

The reentry may appear as multiple bright streaks moving across the sky in the same direction. Due to the relatively large size of the object, it is expected that there will be many pieces reentering together, some of which may survive reentry and land on the Earth’s surface. 

Tiangong-1 is currently predicted to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere around April 1st, 2018 16:15 UTC ± 9 hours.
This prediction was performed by The Aerospace Corporation on 2018 March 30.

http://www.aerospace.org/cords/reentry-predictions/tiangong-1-reentry/

Clips, images credit: AFP, ESA, NASA, AEROSPACE

Music credit: YouTube Audio Library