The term "Super Moon" refers to the unusually large new (or full) moon that us earthlings see when the moon travels almost as close as it can to Earth. An "extreme Super Moon" occurs when the moon reaches its absolute closest point. On March 19, the moon will be only 221,556 miles away — the first extreme Super Moon in nearly 20 years. So is this something we really should be worried about?
The super charged question is: Should we be concerned?
Some astrologers (not astronomers) believe that this "moonageddon" has already started. Already, folks are linking Japan's disaster with it. Astrologists point to history to validate their predictions. Both the New England hurricane of 1938 and the Australian Hunter Valley floods of 1955 happened during Super Moons, they say. The last Super Moon came in 2005, at around the same time as Hurricane Katrina and the Indonesian tsunami.
Is there anything backing up these theories?
Absolutely none, says Pete Wheeler of the International Center for Radio Astronomy. All that will happen next week is that the Earth will experience a "lower than usual low tide and a higher than usual high tide." A Super Moon, he concludes, is "nothing to get excited about."
Many scientist feel, including astronomer David Reneke, that you can link any almost any natural disaster or event to anything in the night sky." In the past, he adds, people thought the sun would be pulled apart when the planets aligned. "It didn't happen." And the catastrophic events cited by excitable astrologers didn't even happen that close to Super Moons, points out John Metcalfe at TBD. The Hunter river flooded in February 1955, "two whole months before and after bookending Super Moons."
Info here was gathered from:http://theweek.com/article/index/212899/could-a-super-moon-cause-climate-chaos
