Terminator X

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Just been outside & seen weird "ring" around the moon, like this:

http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/...halo_mccay.jpg

What on earth is it?!

TX.

what would scooby do

It's the first portent of the Mayan 2012 prediction of the end of the earth. As has been documented for some time now..

hope that helps.

stilover

Run for the Hills...........

Terminator X

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Tad scary, looked like a planet was crashing down ...

http://nerdiest-kids.com/wp-content/...ting_earth.jpg

TX.

vindaloo

Designated smoking area for aliens?

Stevesbluewrx

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TX, Spotted that too. Freaky.


Steve

jura11

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Hi matey here is explanation and few examples
http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonring/

f1_fan

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Er... it's not on earth though is it?

dpb

Global warming ;-)

_Meridian_

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It was once (astronomy joke).


M

ChefDude

we had a moon like that the night we stayed in the jordanian desert.

"The ring around the Moon is caused by the refraction of Moonlight (which of course is reflected sunlight) from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The shape of the ice crystals results in a focusing of the light into a ring. Since the ice crystals typically have the same shape, namely a hexagonal shape, the Moon ring is almost always the same size.

bigsinky

if you squat naked inside a a convex mirror about 3 feet in diameter and look down you can see uranaus.

oldsplice

Jeez! That's going to stay with me for the rest of the day now!

alcazar

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Ring around the moon: one of the pointers that a depression is on it's way.

dpb

Im not sure we ever climbed out of it personally

dunx

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A REAL depression... not the current "blip"

what would scooby do

That's no moon !

jonc

It's a space station!

dpb

Hes on summat , thats for sure

Leslie

Atmospheric conditions causing the moonlight to be refracted such that it appears to make that halo effect.

Les