Gabriella Rudy is a news associate for NBC News.
Stargazers are in for quite the double feature this weekend: The Beaver Moon, the last supermoon of the year, will share the celestial stage with the dazzling Leonid meteor shower. The Beaver Moon will reach the crest of its full phase at 4:29 p.m. ET on Friday. This is the final supermoon of this year's four supermoons, when the moon appears bigger and brighter than normal, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac.
During the fur trade in North America, this was also the season to trap beavers for their thick, winter-ready pelts, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac. A supermoon occurs when a full moon coincides with the moon’s closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit, a point known as perigee. According to NASA, 'supermoon' isn’t an official astronomical term, but typically it’s used to describe a full moon that comes within at least 90 percent of perigee.
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