supermoon to pass earth at closest on monday morning 




  biggest and brightest moon ever seen since 1948 will occur monday at 6:23 est, coming some 216,000 miles from earth. 




reports say that the moon<u+2019>s orbit is <u+201c>egg-shaped<u+201d> and that<u+2019>s why it will appear it<u+2019>s biggest monday morning, until the next time the phenomenon will happen in 2034. image: r singh/flickr
moon making closest pass to earth since 1948
staff writer