The letter E appears twice in the word week but only once in the word year.. People can be tricked by focusing on trying to identify an event that happens twice during the span of a week but only once during the span of a year. However, the riddle's answer actually refers to the frequency with which the letter E appears in each of the two words. A similar riddle is: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?. The answer is the letter M..
The first full moon was spotted on 1 July and the second will appear on the last day of the month â Friday, July 31. This appearance is the first such occurrence in three years since the last blue moon month in August 2012, the next will not be until January 2018. Astronomers predict it will only happen on 12 occasions between now and 2043.
It is most easily seen just after sunrise in the southern sky. Monday, October 12, 8:06 p.m. EDT. New Moon. The moon is not visible on the date of New Moon because it is too close to the sun, but can be seen low in the east as a narrow crescent a morning or two before, just before sunrise.