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Full moon on New Year's Eve

By Daniel Smith on Dec 31, 09 12:27 PM

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Look up to the skies tonight and you'll see a once-in-20-odd-years event - a full moon on New Year's Eve.

It's a blue moon, which happens every two and a half years. For more info, click here.

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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.

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