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Posted By: Chuck Bower In Response To: Blue Moon (Chuck Bower)
Date: Tuesday, 31 July 2007, at 7:40 p.m.
Sky and Telescope online article here
It sounds like I got Sticked again. Although neither of our definitions of "Blue Moon" is the original, the saying apparently did come into being after the 19th century "bluing" of the moon from smoke.
I learned the "two full moons in the same month" meaning around 1972. That may or may not contradict the "became popular within the last 20 years" quote from the article.
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