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A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the moon's disk as seen from Earth. The technical name is the perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system. The term "supermoon" is not an astronomical one, but one that originated in modern astrology. The association of the Moon with both oceanic and crustal tides has led to claims that the supermoon phenomenon may be associated with increased risk of events such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. However, the evidence of such a link is widely held to be unconvincing.
The Moon's distance varies each month between approximately 357,000 kilometers (222,000 mi) and 406,000 km (252,000 mi) due to its elliptical orbit around the Earth (distances given are center-to-center).
According to NASA, a full moon at perigee is up to 14% larger and 30% brighter than one at its furthest point (apogee).
The name SuperMoon was coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979, arbitrarily defined as:
Sophie Hunger (born Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti on March 31, 1983) is a folk-pop-blues singer from Zurich.
Sophie Hunger grew up in Bern (Switzerland), London (United Kingdom), Bonn (Germany) and Zurich with two older siblings. She graduated in the fall of 2002 and subsequently studied German and English.
As a child, Sophie Hunger for some time took piano lessons. Since her father was a jazz listener, Hunger came in contact with that style of music quite early. She herself had a varying taste in music. As a teenager, she first was into hip hop and rhythm and blues, later listened to rock music and as a young adult she eventually discovered country music, bluegrass and folk music.
From 2002 to 2006 Hunger was a guest singer for the project Superterz and appears on the 2006 album Standards released by that group. Starting in 2004, Hunger was the lead singer of the indie rock group Fisher. The band split in 2007.
She composes most of her songs in English, Swiss Alemanic dialect and German. She also plays guitar and piano. For the last two years, she has been playing with a trombone player, Michael Flury and a multi-instrumentist (flute, piano, guitar), Christian Prader. The band also has a drummer, Marc Erbetta (formerly Alberto Malo, Julian Sartorius and Dominik Chansorn), and a bass player, Simon Gerber (formerly Balz Bachmann).