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<ul><li>This year’s Holi will kick off with the second-closest supermoon of the year gracing the skies tonight, March 9. </li><li>Holi’s phalgun purmina is always a full moon, but a supermoon is a rare occurrence. </li><li>Tonight’s supermoon is also the first of three consecutive supermoons set to appear in 2020. </li></ul>This year’s Holi may be bogged down amid fears of Coronavirus but the night sky is going to be just a little bit brighter. The second-closest supermoon of the year is set to rise tonight, March 9, kicking off the festival of colours in India. Every year, Holi comes on a different date because it’s dictated by the Hindu lunar calendar and must coincide with the final full moon of the year — the <keyword id="8887297" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="phalgun-purnima">phalgun purnima</keyword>. However, every March full moon isn’t a supermoon. <div type="image" title="supermoon-640x350_edited" msid="74548171" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;A supermoon is 30% brighter and 14% larger than the conventional full moon&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div>

 Supermoons only occur when a full moon coincides with the Moon’s closest approach to the planet. In 2020, the March 9 full moon will be the second-closest of the year. It’s also the first of the three consecutive supermoons set to appear in 2020. <table style="border-width: initial; border-style: none; width: 468pt; table-layout: fixed;"></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Date of supermoon </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Distance from Earth </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">March 9 2020 </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">357,404 km </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">April 8 2020 </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">357,035 km </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">May 7 2020 </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">361,184 km </td></tr></tbody></table>Source: TimeandDate.com According to historians, Holi — then referred to as Holika — was a religious ritual where married women gather around a bonfire to pray to the Moon god Raka for the good health of their families. A brighter Holi Even though the difference is difficult to perceive with the naked eye, supermoons are a little brighter and closer than a conventional full moon. The Moon’s orbit around the Earth is elliptical — not a perfect circle. This means that at certain points, the Moon is closer to the planet than at other points of its orbit. On average, the Moon is around 382,900 kilometres from Earth. However, at its closest, the perigee, it’s 21,000 kilometres closer. The Moon’s closest approach, within 90% of the perigee, combined with a full moon results in a supermoon. But, there are only a few supermoons in a year if at all. The closest supermoon in recorded history occurred in November 2016. However, an even closer supermoon is set to rise in the 2030s. With a supermoon coming in for the <keyword id="7441210" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="holi-purnima">holi purnima</keyword>, the skies are going to be 30% brighter with the Moon appearing 14% larger. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/lunar-eclipse-super-moon-2020-what-is-super-moon/articleshow/73148366.cms">Lunar eclipse on January 10 won't be a Super Moon — Here's why</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tonights-super-snow-moon-will-be-the-biggest-and-brightest-full-moon-of-2019-heres-why-/articleshow/68071166.cms">Tonight's 'super snow moon' will be the biggest and brightest full moon of 2019. Here's why.</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/lunar-eclipses-of-2020-what-is-an-eclipse/articleshow/73115231.cms">There will be four lunar eclipses in 2020 - starting this week</a>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>There's no set definition of "worldschooling" because there isn't only one way to do it.</li><li>Parents who worldschool their kids say experiential learning is key to this type of schooling.</li></ul>Colleen Mariotti, originally from Seattle, sold all her belongings in <a href="https://livology.com/about-livology/">2013</a> and applied for dual citizenship in Italy. She and her family relocated there with the intention of starting in Italy and then seeing the world.After playing at the park, her kids asked to attend an Italian public school. Mariotti was unsure but trusted her kids. She discovered that the process of enrolling wasn't hard.She listened one evening as they described their first day. They'd followed their teachers to a finely laid dining hall for a multicourse lunch. For an hour they ate and talked. Though her kids spoke no Italian, their classmates still engaged them. The meal opened doors and minds, and the school would remain a positive memory for years to come.Mariotti is part of a group of so-called worldschoolers, a subset of a growing group of digital nomads. The digital-nomad lifestyle has been <a href="https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210615-is-the-great-digital-nomad-workforce-actually-coming">gaining popularity for years</a> but spiked during the pandemic. By one estimate, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinecastrillon/2022/07/17/why-the-digital-nomad-lifestyle-is-on-the-rise/?sh=5874a1904934">Forbes reported</a>, the number of digital nomads in the US rose by 50%, to about 11 million, in 2020.Worldschooling is a digital-nomad lifestyle for families. And for many, this lifestyle began long before the pandemic.<h2>You can adapt it to your needs</h2><a href="https://www.worldschoolingcentral.com/">Worldschooling</a> has no set definition because there's no single way to do it. Some families travel nonstop, becoming digital nomads like the Mariottis. Others worldschool from a base, renting out their house while they travel, or travel only part time.Travel is just one component of the philosophy. There's no set way to educate kids on the road either, but families share a belief that kids can learn directly from the world around them.<div type="image" title="Colleen Mariotti kids in Italy" height="1435" width="1914" msid="93776556" hostid="261" sizebytes="240756"></div>Experiential learning is key to worldschooling. Study history where it happened. Learn cultures, languages, and more directly from others. Visit castles, pyramids, rainforests, temples, deserts, and glaciers as part of a global classroom. And through the power of the internet, develop friendships on multiple continents.Many families on the road primarily homeschool their kids or use online curricula. Others hire teachers to travel with them or hire tutors in each nation they visit. Others join "hubs" of worldschoolers, where kids can learn together. And others enroll their kids in schools around the world.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/bagspackedfamily">Kelly Malahy Rusch</a>, a parent of three elementary-school-aged kids, prefers international schools to public ones. Her children have attended schools in India, the United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia. Rusch and her husband offset the tuition by teaching at the schools themselves — the parents learn the culture while the kids gain an international perspective for free.<h2>There are challenges</h2>While some families who worldschool spend months or years in one location to immerse themselves, others move from place to place to experience living in as many nations as possible. For those fast travelers, making friends and establishing routines can be a struggle.<a href="https://playlearnthrive.com/?fbclid=IwAR1747g0WjaLpe7haFbivUU0VUeCZBYOml1VK_4fc0ZbiY04ZXZ1dj8xJ8s">Alanna Gallo</a>, a former public-school teacher in the US, left in search of a better educational system for her own children. But she said she withdrew her students from a school they attended in the Dominican Republic after a week over concerns that they were unsupervised. Then, while they were still settling in, two of her children became ill, and she had to wrestle with healthcare in a foreign environment. She found a forest school her kids thrived in, and, later, a Montessori school in Greece.With no mortgage or utility costs — and usually far less stuff — the cost of living for some worldschoolers <a href="https://www.worlddata.info/cost-of-living.php">can be low</a>, especially compared with owning a home in a wealthy nation such as the US.Mariotti has been traveling for eight years. In an ashram in Indonesia, her children volunteered as English teachers. Her oldest, age 12, said: "I think there are teachers around every corner of this world. I have never learned more from anyone than I have from these kids, and I was the one who was supposed to be teaching." The children attended a full-moon ceremony on their final day in Bali.For these kids, and many others, the world truly is their classroom.Christopher Mannino is an at-home dad, <a href="https://www.christophermannino.com/">author</a>, and <a href="https://www.clippings.me/cmannino">freelance writer</a>. He writes fantasy books for children and adults and lives in Delaware.

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