Spacewatch Friday: Full Moon Names: Harvest, Hunter, Wolf and Sturgeon? By Joe Rao Special to SPACE.com posted: 07:00 am ET 14 February 2003
Wolf Moon
January 7, 2004 10:40
a.m. EST
Amid the zero cold and deep
snows of midwinter, wolf packs howled hungrily outside Native American villages.
It was also known as the Old Moon or the Moon After Yule.
For some tribes this was
the Full Snow Moon; as already noted, a name more often applied to the
February moon.