Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Once in a Blue Moon ...

Many of you have asked "what is a blue moon?"  Check out the following link!

Blue Moon

Did you know what a blue moon is?  Did you learn anything new?

69 comments:

Anonymous said...

A Blue Moon is a the second full moon in a calendar month. For a blue moon to occur, the first of the full moons must appear at or near the beginning of the month so that the second will fall within the same month (the average span between two moons is 29.5 days)
I did learn somthing new, i learned what a blue moon is.

Taylor's blog spot said...

no i didnt know wat a blue moon was, but i learned that for one to accore the other first full moons have to acore at the begining of the month.thats pretty cool!

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Anonymous said...

-Jill Stange
a blue moon is 2nd full moon on a calender month.The first of the full moons must appear at or near the beginning of the month so that the second will fall with in the same month (the span between two moons is 29.5 days).

i did not know what a bluemoon was until today

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Anonymous said...

The older definition, which is recorded in early issues of the Maine Farmer's Almanac, states that the blue moon is the third full moon in a season that has four full moons. Why would one want to identify the third full moon in a season of four full moons? The answer is complex, and has to do with the Christian ecclesiastical calendar

Sarah Savard

Luke said...

Cool. I was in the Grand Canyon once and my dad told me there was a blue moon out that night, so we looked out. It was soooo cool. There wolves howling too! I didnt know blue moons were also the 3rd in a season.

Henson,Megan said...

I didnt know what a blue moon was untill reading this piece.I learned that a blue moon is a a second full moon in a calendar month.

Moehring,DeeAnna said...

this is so cool!!
i hope we have a new moon soon so for a new moon to accour the first full moons have to be at the beginning of the month snd the new moon will follow?? is that right?

Moehring,DeeAnna said...

@megan henson
i also learned that a new moon is the 2nd new moon on a calender month i think this is so cool!! i wounder if it looks blue??

ReddingtonDavid said...

i really wish i could have saw it
it sounds really cool
it there going to be another one?

Anonymous said...

@taylor i also learned that for one to accore the other first full moons have to acore at the begining of the month.That is pretty sweet.

kallmeyer, bridget said...

I didn`t know what a blue moon was. I lernd that a blue moon is the second moon in its month. So there would have to be a full moon in the begining of the month so the second moon would be about 29.5 days latter which would be called the blue moon.

Savard, Samantha said...

No, I did not know what a Blue Moon was but I learned that for a blue moon to occur that the first full moons must occur near or at the begining of the month.

Tyler said...

Thtas cool but why is everthing envolved with the color bluethe sky is blue and now a blue moon

Lamping Ally said...

No I have never heard of a blue moon until today. A blue moon is the second full moon in a calendar month. When is the next blue moon?

Andrew Gibbous McCarthy said...

i didnt no that there were to names for it and the first full moon must accour its kinda cool and it can span for 29.5 days

Anonymous said...

Alana Gulley
I Really Havent Been Interested In The Solar System and the moon until now this year in science class. i aalso never reallly knew anything about the blue moon, so this will also add to what im learning new about in science class! Its Pretty Kool!!!!!

Henry Minning said...

Wow, that was pretty cool. A blue moon is a second full moon in the same mounth. Two in the same mounth. Over the next 20 years we will have fifteen more full moons. I wonder why the call it a "BLUE" moon.

stalbaum,lauren said...

i dont know how, but i have alwaysed known what a blue moon is for some reason, i think i read a book on it in like 2nd grade? idk.

bekah said...

wow that cool. when i first heard a blue moon i though it was when the moon was blue. i though that there could only be 1 full moon a month.

bader,lindsay said...

that was cool i never herd of a blue moon before and why dose it take 29.5 days for two moons to show

Anonymous said...

New moons are realy cool. I mean that is just so cool that every third of four moons in a season is a blue moon.

Anonymous said...

@AnnaSanzere
That is cool that a blue moon is the secoun full moon of the month. I didnt even know there was a blue moon.

Anonymous said...

I didn't know there was something called a blue moon(second full moon of the month.) Isn't there a saying though..."once in a blue moon?" haha i dont know

Anonymous said...

at first i didnt know when a blue moon accured now i know its the secont full moon in the month.that is 29.5 days. i thought the artical helped me understand more about the blue moon. Allison Johnson

Anonymous said...

@henson megan i also didnt know what the blue was until the link so i thought the link helped me understand too. allison johnson

Anonymous said...

Thats really cool. I would like to see the "Blue Moon". I want to know why there woulsnt be a blue moon 2011, 2014 and 2017.

Anonymous said...

that was a really cool pic. i was really facinated of how the moon can turn blue. i agrre with evry thing you said anna.if i could i would study the blue moon for the rest of my life.

John Dinger said...

So that is why people say once in a blue moon for a special event happening,because it doesnt happen often. this was very interesting

Andie said...

No I did not know about the blue moon but it either did or will make an apperiance in 2010.

alyssa weber said...

a blue moon is the second moon occoring in the same month
i learned wat a blue moon is and i earned why and when it occers

alyssa weber said...

@alysson
i learned alout from the article too. i didnt even know there was such thing as a blue moon!
Iv never thought twice about the moons color
did you know about a blue moon before this i read article

walter burkart said...

i dident know what a blue moon was but now i do now when is the next blue moon

Natalie said...

I always wondered why people said that!

Zach "Hillshire" Viox said...

it is very confusing but i get it it is pretty cool but i wish i would have known what it was when it occured

Andrew Ehrman said...

I thought it had something to do with a blue tone to the moon but clearly i was wrong.

Andie said...

ohhh I finally get why people say once in a blue moon. Cool fact.

Zach "Hillshire" Viox said...

@Brianna!:)
I wonder that too i wish someone could answer that

MooreKassidy said...

I never really did know anything about the blue moon. I learned that that there is anothe type of blue moon.

Thorp,Jayden said...

a blue moon is a second full moon in a month that is so cool what if there were nothing but full moons i wonder what that would be like i guess things would be diffrent i guess

Thorp,Jayden said...

every 29.5 days why isnt it evry 29 days

Reis, Elizabeth said...

I did not know what a blue moon was until now but I had heard of it. I learned that a blue moon is a second full moon in a calendar month or in an earlier definition, the third full moon in a season that has four full moons. A blue moon can not occur in February and we last saw one on December 31, 2009

Thorp,Jayden said...

@ kassidy moore
i know i didnt know that ethier
but you learn something new every day

Reis, Elizabeth said...

@Natalie Yeah I wondered that too. It makes sense though considering a blue moon occurs "even now and then."

dacoda said...

a blue moon is the second full moon witchn happens in the same month for that to happen there has to have a full monn in the beging of the month for there to be a blue moon.

Thorp,Jayden said...

@ zack viox
i know i wish i would have known that when it occored lol i wish i knew when the next one is.

Calderon, Heidi said...

A blue moon?? freaky but alsooo kind offf cool at the same time of being freaky.
what i learned is that the blue moon is the second full moon in a calender month. thats awesome to me

Raines,Katrina said...

the bule moon is very cool,i learned a few things form blue moon

Dupont, Noah said...

Never knew what a Blue Moon was. Now I do. I never knew why they called it blue. Now I do.
Its quite interesting.

cirkovic, daniel said...

That sounds very cool. So a blue moon is econd second full moon in a month. I never knew that. I would love to see that. So cool. It would be coll if someone landed on the moon when it was blue.

Anonymous said...

josh parsons-I have never heard of a blue moon.And it only happens certain year and months.that is wierd that i never seen that.

gaddis,breanna said...

whats really wierd is that the moon isnt really blue, but that would be cool if it was

cirkovic, daniel said...

@Dupont, Noah
That is very interseting I heard something about a blue moon. That is so amazing. I hope one day I can be on the moon when its blue.

Sydney,Vest said...

Blue moon?? what?? before i read this i had know idea what this was about!! i get it now. I thinks its pretty cool how 2 full moons will just appear in one month!Its the second full moon on the calendar. For this to occur the first full moons must appear around the begginning of the month.

Sydney,Vest said...

i agree with Anna!! @ Meagan Henson

Schirmer,Brandon said...

when the next blue moon occurs i am gonna see it just iman=gine seeing it

Thorp,Jayden said...

I want to know is the blue moon really blue or is that and expretion?

Jenkins,Tom said...

is a bule moon rely blue?

Mauricio,Courtney said...

@ Anna I agree we did learn something new, and we could learn even more by working harder and doing more to learn

Sturwold, Kaylee said...

i didnt know that a blue moon was the second full moon in a month that is a strange name why dont they just call it the second new moon its not blue or anything ?

Sturwold, Kaylee said...

@anna i wonder if the blue moon like messes up in a leap year? because there is 29 day or 28 i dont know anyway i wonder if there is like 3 moons in the next month i dont know?

bader,lindsay said...

same here becca i thought there could only be one full moon in a month

Anonymous said...

2ANNA THAT IS COOLI WISH I COULDE SEE IT DID YOU ANNA

Weisker,Kyle said...

No, it didn't really know what a blue moon was. I now know that a blue moon occurs when we have two full moons in one month. I also learned that there could never be a full moon in February because February because there is only 28 dyas in February and you need 29.5 days between each moon.

Schwab,Izzy said...

i already knew what a blue moon was...i learned that the first full moon has to accur at the BEGINNING of the month. it would be cool if the blue moon were actually blue though...

Thorp,Jayden said...

@ tom j
I wonder the same thing tom is the blue moon really blue I dont think so. but you never know

Schwab,Izzy said...

@kyle Weisker oh i geuss i did learn something else! i mean i knew that february was on 28 days long but i didn't know that you couldn't have a full moon in feburary.

Anonymous said...

Ohh, ive heard the saying once in a blue moon, i dont think ive ever seen one but aunistly before this class i never paid attention to the moon.
-Sara Voigt :)