What is a perigee-syzygy?
My husband was so excited about learning the term perigee-syzygy that he kept saying it over and over, until the words blended into his regular breathing and he dozed off in his chair. The compound word describes what the vulgar press calls a supermoon. A syzygy happens when the Moon, Earth and sun line up, creating a full moon (or a new moon, which we can’t see because only the far side gets lit up). The perigee is when the moon comes closest to Earth (its farthest point is called the apogee). The distance changes because the moon’s orbit around Earth is oval-shaped.
