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<br /><ul><li>This year’s Holi will kick off with the second-closest supermoon of the year gracing the skies tonight, March 9.<br /></li><li>Holi’s <em>phalgun purmina</em> is always a full moon, but a supermoon is a rare occurrence.<br /></li><li>Tonight’s supermoon is also the first of three consecutive supermoons set to appear in 2020.<br /></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.<br /><br />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 <em><keyword id="8887297" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="phalgun-purnima">phalgun purnima</keyword>.</em> However, every March full moon isn’t a supermoon.<br /><br /><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>

<br />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.<br /><br /><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<br /><br /></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<br /><br /></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<br /><br /></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<br /><br /></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<br /><br /></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<br /><br /></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<br /><br /></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<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><em>Source: TimeandDate.com</em><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><strong>A brighter Holi<br /></strong>Even though the difference is difficult to perceive with the naked eye, supermoons are a little brighter and closer than a conventional full moon.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />With a supermoon coming in for the <em><keyword id="7441210" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="holi-purnima">holi purnima</keyword></em>, the skies are going to be 30% brighter with the Moon appearing 14% larger.<br /><br /><strong>See also:<br /></strong><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><br /><br /><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><br /><br /><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><br />

Holi 2020 will be witness to the second-closest supermoon of the year

<br /><br /><ul><li>This year's first lunar eclipse will happen on January 10 — the 'Wolf Moon'.</li><li>However, it will not be a Super Moon since the natural satellite won't be at its closest point to the Earth. </li><li>The moon will only hit perigee on January 14, three days after the lunar eclipse and full moon on January 10.</li></ul>The 'Wolf Moon' lunar eclipse, or <em><keyword id="4015484" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chandra-Grahan">chandra grahan</keyword>, </em>is slated to take place this Friday on January 10. But, it won't be a Super Moon — the biggest the moon can be in the night sky. <br /><br />The natural satellite's orbit around the planet isn't circular but shaped like an eclipse. So a Super Moon only happens when the moon is as its closest to the earth — a point in its orbit called the perigee.<br /><br />At this point, the moon is around 363,300 kilometres away. In comparison, at apogee — the further point from earth in the moon's orbit — it is around 405,500 kilometres away.<br /><br />On Friday, the moon will still be <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/distance.html">four days away</a> from that point. By the time it reaches, the lunar eclipse will be long over and it will no longer be a full moon.<br /><br />
  
  
  
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<br /><strong>Super Moons in 2020<br /></strong><br />According to astrologer <a href="http://www.astropro.com/features/tables/cen21ce/suprmoon.html">Richard Nolle</a>, there are only two Super Moons set to happen in 2020. One on March 9 and another a month later, on April 8 — the closest that the Moon will be to earth during a full Moon this year.<br /><br />However, another astrologer — <a href="http://astropixels.com/ephemeris/moon/fullperigee2001.html">Frmed Espenak</a> — believes that full moons on February 9 and May 7 will also be close enough to be classified as Super Moons.<br /><br /><strong>See also:</strong><br /><strong><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><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/wolf-moon-lunar-eclipse-this-friday-will-have-werewolves-looking-form-packs-or-so-the-myth-says/articleshow/73131533.cms">'Wolf Moon' lunar eclipse this Friday will have werewolves looking to form packs — or so the myth says</a><br /><br /></strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/solar-eclipses-in-2020-twice-a-year-that-the-moon-tries-to-block-out-the-sun/articleshow/73130754.cms"><strong>Solar eclipses in 2020 — twice a year that the Moon will try to block out the Sun</strong></a><br />

Lunar eclipse on January 10 won't be a Super Moon — Here's why

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table full"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>This Friday, a rare total solar eclipse will be visible across parts of Greenland, Europe, and North Africa. Not only is this the only total solar eclipse in 2015, but it's the last of its kind for another 19 years.</p><p>There are a few things that makes this eclipse so rare:</p><p>(Sadly for the US, the eclipse won't be visible from North America but h<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-see-solar-eclipse-2015-from-us-2015-3">ere's how to watch live</a> online.)</p><p>It's the only total solar eclipse of 2015. Total solar eclipses are pretty rare just by themselves. On average, there are usually only one to two total solar eclipses a year. After Friday's event, there are <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html">four more total solar eclipses</a> taking place between now and the year 2020.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>It's the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century that occurs on the same day as the first day of spring. To have the moon block out the sun on the same day as the vernal equinox, the first day of Spring, is even more rare.<p>It won't happen again until the year 2034.</p><p>And after that, the only other two such events will be in <a href="http://earthsky.org/space/how-often-do-we-have-a-march-equinox-solar-eclipse">2053 and 2072</a> before the next turn of the century.</p><p>Certain solar eclipses occur in periodic cycles and this one is part of the Saros cycle 120 - a highly studied set of eclipses.</p><p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Saros_120">Saros cycle 120</a> refers to a very specific set of solar eclipses that take place every 18 years and is visible from the same regions on Earth because of where in space the moon and Earth are relative to the sun. The first documented Saros cycle solar eclipse took place in 933 AD. The next one in the cycle will take place on March 30 in 2033. There are other <a href="http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros.html">Saros cycles</a> that refer either to other solar eclipses with different alignments between the earth, moon, and sun or certain lunar eclipses.</p><p>And to top it off, the moon will look larger than usual during Friday's event. The moon isn't always the same distance from Earth in its orbit. When it's either a full moon or a new moon and is closest to Earth, like the new moon on Thrusday, March 19, we call it a supermoon. Full moons that are also supermoons can appear as much as <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120507035348/http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16mar_supermoon/">14% larger</a> in the sky.</p><p>There are, on average, <a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;ion=1&amp;espv=2&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=how%20many%20supermoons%20in%20a%20year">four to six supermoons</a> every year.</p><p>Don't expect a spectacular view of the supermoon this time around, though. It's really only impressive when it is full, but sadly, a solar eclipse can only take place when the moon is between Earth and the sun, which is also when the moon is in it's new moon phase, which is invisible in our night sky.</p><p>The next supermoon that coincides with a brilliantly bright full moon will be this year on <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/super-full-moon.html">September 27</a>, and, unlike tomorrow's event, everyone with clear skies will get a chance to see the show.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/awesome-auroras-time-lapse-south-pole-2014-11">Watch This Amazing Time-Lapse Video Of Auroras Over The South Pole</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="I3ZmpzcTo0pQKj5M5MsyUe5-aXdhilni" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

Friday's solar eclipse is like nothing we'll see for another 19 years

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer</span></p><p class="caption">French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Special envoy to the United Nations for climate change Michael Bloomberg as he arrives for a lunch at the Elysee Palace as part of the One Planet Summit in Paris, France, December 12, 2017.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul><li><strong>Over 200 firms have pledged to regularly disclose the risk climate change poses to their business and implement climate-friendly initiatives as part of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, a group led by Michael Bloomberg and Mark Carney.</strong></li><li><strong>The push includes institutional investors, insurance giants, and pension funds, which manage a combined $81.7 trillion.</strong></li><li><strong>The financial sector's engagement on climate change comes at a critical time. </strong></li></ul><p> </p><p>The world's largest institutional investors are going green.</p><p>Over 200 firms, managing a combined $81.7 trillion<span>, pledged earlier this month to regularly report the risk climate change poses to their business, and make progress on initiatives to reduce their impact on the planet. </span></p><p><span>These reports - much like quarterly-earnings reports - will include climate-related topics like water and energy use, and will help shareholders and investors make decisions about which companies are actively managing their climate risks. </span></p><p><span>The recent pledge is part of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, a group that aims to develop a consistent framework for firms to disclose climate-related financial risks. Led by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, the group</span><span> includes institutional investors like BlackRock and JP Morgan Chase, mutual fund managers like <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/vanguard-pushes-companies-to-disclose-climate-change-risks-2017-11">Vanguard</a>, and massive pension funds like Denmark's $40 billion PKA and California's Public Employees Retirement System.</span></p><p><span>During French President Emmanuel Macron's One Planet Summit earlier this month, held on the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/paris-agreement-2-year-anniversary-us-mayors-step-up-2017-12">2-year anniversary of the Paris climate agreement</a>, Carney emphasized that top investors want businesses to report this kind of climate data. He said the number of companies that have signed on to the task force has doubled in the past five months, to 237. </span></p><p><span>"You now have the mass of the financial sector saying, 'We want to distinguish between those who can see the opportunities, those who can manage the risks, and companies that just don't know the answers," Carney said. "It's going to be more awkward to be in that last group."</span></p><h2><span>Big money is pushing for climate action </span></h2><p>BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager with $6 trillion under management, sent letters earlier this month to 120 companies that it invests in and has identified as exposed to climate risk. The letters urged the companies to report climate data in line with the task force's recommendations.  </p><p>Shell, one of the companies that received a letter, pledged earlier this month to <a href="http://www.shell.com/investors/news-and-media-releases/investor-presentations/2017-investor-presentations/2017-management-day/_jcr_content/par/textimage_4658.stream/1511859179131/bb67379c52630381c1b2d22ba48420cee173ff12d3029a7d465ab22149a1d4a3/shell-faq-net-carbon-footprint-ambition.pdf">reduce its net carbon emissions</a> 20% by 2035, and 50% by 2050 below current levels. </p><p><span>Vanguard, which is a major shareholder in many public energy companies, is pushing those corporations to disclose how climate change affects their business as well. </span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>REUTERS/Brendan McDermid</span></p><p class="caption">Darren Woods, Chairman &amp; CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation attends a news conference at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 1, 2017.</p></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span>"For many companies across sectors like the material sector, the energy sector, the industrial sector, the topic of climate risk is going to be very relevant," Rob Main, who sits on Vanguard's investment stewardship team, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/vanguard-pushes-companies-to-disclose-climate-change-risks-2017-11">told Yale Climate Connections' podcast in November</a>. </span><span>"Given our duty to steward our shareholders' long-term investments, we must be aware of this risk, where it's most relevant, and ensure companies are addressing it in an appropriate manner."</span></p><p><span>JP Morgan, one of the world's largest banks with $2.6 trillion under management, is throwing its weight behind the task force too, and encouraging companies it invests in to report data related to climate change. JP Morgan's sustainability chief, Matthew Arnold, called the task force's recommendations an "important step" for promoting transparency around climate-related risks. </span></p><p><span>"We look forward to engaging as companies explore best practices for implementation," he said. </span></p><p><span>One of those companies, Exxon Mobil, said <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/exxon-shell-bp-announce-renewable-energy-and-climate-initiatives-2017-12">in an SEC filing earlier this month</a> that it plans to report the "impacts" that climate change and environmental policies have on the company, after months of conflict with shareholders over the issue. Exxon's disclosures will likely include implications of the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/paris-agreement-not-on-track-climate-change-2017-12">2-degree-Celsius warming limit</a> agreed to in the Paris climate agreement, as well as how the company is positioning its business for a "lower-carbon future."</span></p><p><span>French insurance giant AXA SA is also part of the task force, and has pledged to fully divest from coal and tar sands companies, and quadruple investments in green companies to $14 billion by 2020, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-12/macron-s-climate-summit-draws-pledges-to-make-coal-a-risky-bet">according to Bloomberg</a>. </span></p><p>Other major financial agencies have jumped on board, too. The World Bank <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/climatechange/brief/qa-the-world-bank-group-and-upstream-oil-and-gas">announced that it plans to stop financing "upstream" oil-and-gas projects</a> - that is, those in the exploratory phase - from 2019 on. But the World Bank said it would continue to finance "downstream" projects (those already online) with an emphasis on natural gas in developing countries.</p><p>Moody's, one of the largest credit-ratings agencies, has already started <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/moodys-credit-ratings-could-drop-without-preparation-for-climate-change-2017-11">factoring climate indicators into its evaluation of coastal states and cities,</a> so it's likely just a matter of time before the agency applies the framework to companies as well.</p><h2>Bloomberg and Carney leading the way</h2><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>David McNew/Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">A smoke-filled sky filter orange light around surfers as the Thomas Fire continues to grow and threaten communities from Carpinteria to Santa Barbara on December 12, 2017 in Carpinteria, California.</p></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span>Bloomberg and Carney both strongly believe that companies actively managing their climate-related risks will benefit in the long run.</span></p><p><span>"If the investing public likes what they are doing, they'll get a higher valuation, their stock will go up and bonuses will be bigger," Bloomberg <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/12/investing/climate-change-paris-companies-reporting/index.html">told CNN</a>. </span><span></span></p><p><span>These pushes from investors come as the US government is rejecting its former, Obama-era leadership on climate change issues.  </span></p><p><span>President Donald Trump has pledged to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/paris-agreement-not-on-track-climate-change-2017-12">pull the US out of the Paris Agreement,</a> which pushes member nations to curb greenhouse gas emissions in order to keep global temperatures from increasing more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The process of removing the US will take years, however. </span></p><p><span>The financial sector's engagement on climate change comes at a critical time. A recent report found that the world is <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/paris-agreement-not-on-track-climate-change-2017-12">way off track</a> to hit the targets laid out by the Paris agreement, with or without US involvement. </span></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-a-supermoon-2017-11">A supermoon is happening on New Year's Day - here's what a supermoon actually is</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

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