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Kenyans marvel at biggest and brightest supermoon of the year

Tracy Kimathi watches the super moon atop the KICC in Nairobi on Thursday.

People from all walks of life gathered in large numbers atop the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) building in Nairobi to marvel at the biggest and brightest moon of the year, known in space lingo as the full super moon.

This is a phenomenon that occurs when the full moon is at perigee - the closest distance it is to Earth during the year at 363,300km. 

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