Wednesday,  June 6, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 328 • 9 of 39 •  Other Editions

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• That story prompted another reader to send in an alternate version for the origin of the name children's moon. She wrote, "I heard a daytime moon was called a 'children's moon' because their eyes were sharp enough to pick it out, where the old folks, with fading vision, could not tell it from the clouds."
• Can you see the daytime moon this weekend? In the morning, look for it low in the southwest sky shortly after sunrise tomorrow, and rather high up in the southern sky about a week from now.


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