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The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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