If you looked at the sky on May 5, 2012 (which was actually 4 days ago) the moon was the biggest and brightest you've ever seen. I took a picture of the moon that night when was having family movie night. The moon looked like a tiny dot, it was very far away. If you had a telescope it would have looked much bigger. The moon's orbit is an oval shape and it was at its closest turn to earth and it was facing the United States. They called it a Super moon because it was very close to earth. The moons orbit is because of earth's gravitational pull. Earth's gravity must have gotten stronger to pull the moon closer to the earth, but not too close or the moon would then fall to earth and then collapse in on you and destroy every living thing on the planet. All that would be left is the inner and outer core and the crust. There would just be a giant hole of debris. I don't think the earth would be knocked out of its orbit because the sun has a strong gravitational pull on the earth. The earth won't go any further to the sun because the sun's gravitational pull is very stable and stays that way. I hope you saw the moon's fantastic close encounter. Please type to me if you saw the moon outside that night.
From, Brennan Ison,
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