Breadcrumb Home New moon makes rare second appearance twice this year Tuesday, January 28, 2014 UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies website http://www.ottumwacourier.com/local/x651197097/New-moon-makes-rare-second-appea… UI astronomy professor Steven Spangler says that having two new moons in the same calendar month twice in the same year, as we will in January and March 2014, is so rare he thought at first it couldn't happen at all.