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T O P I C R E V I E Wscatbughey y'all saw this this mornin in my email. my dad sends me all kinds of stuff like this."The Red Planet is about to be spectacular! This month and next, Earth iscatching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in the closestapproach between the two planets in recorded history. The next time Marsmay come this close is in 2287. Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs onMars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Marshas not come this close to Earth in the Last 5,000 years, but it may beas long as 60,000 years before it happens again. The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within34,649,589 miles of Earth and will be (next to the moon) the brightestobject in the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and willappear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest 75-power magnification Marswill look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. Mars will be easyto spot. At the beginning of August it will rise in the east at 10p.m.and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m. By the end of August when the two planets are closest, Mars will rise atnightfall and reach its highest point in the sky at 12:30a.m. That'spretty convenient to see something that no human being has seen inrecorded history. So, mark your calendar at the beginning of August tosee Mars grow progressively brighter and brighter throughout the month.Share this with your children and grandchildren. NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILLEVER SEE THIS AGAIN " so come one come all its tiime to go out and watch mars try to attack us :-P hehehe but seriously tho this sounds pretty neat, i know corri and i are gonna be watchin it :-DAphroditeAwesome ScatbugproxiemeNoooooo!You have taken it!Bah!Curses! Foiled again!*crumples in abject humiliation*OK, naw, that's cool - as long as I can be a part of your new Geeky Throneship by gazing at it w/ you. lioneye68I was lookin at it just last night. It's to the south-east up here, and you can't miss it cuz it's RED! Cool, cool, cool. Thank God it's in Pisces, the least aggressive sign, or I think we'd all be goners! (Hey. Maybe that's why all the heated discussions about the existence of God lately, nah?) Hmm. (insert pacing cat >here< - the one that Prox uses sometimes)Oh oh. Anyone know when it moves into Aries??? Ok, now I'm concerned. I think it's time to move to the mountains and become a recluse like I keep threatening.scatbugmars is attacking! mars is attacking!proxiemeNo need to hide, lioneye, it moves into Aries after Mars moves out of being retro: http://www.astro.com/swisseph/ae/mars1999.pdf (Dec. 16th, I think it says....although there's some veeerrry interestink stuff going on roun' 'bout Aug 27th/28th.) <---Pacing Felix RaAh, Mars.Love that little mysterious planet!
"The Red Planet is about to be spectacular! This month and next, Earth iscatching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in the closestapproach between the two planets in recorded history. The next time Marsmay come this close is in 2287. Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs onMars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Marshas not come this close to Earth in the Last 5,000 years, but it may beas long as 60,000 years before it happens again.
The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within34,649,589 miles of Earth and will be (next to the moon) the brightestobject in the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and willappear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest 75-power magnification Marswill look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. Mars will be easyto spot. At the beginning of August it will rise in the east at 10p.m.and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m.
By the end of August when the two planets are closest, Mars will rise atnightfall and reach its highest point in the sky at 12:30a.m. That'spretty convenient to see something that no human being has seen inrecorded history. So, mark your calendar at the beginning of August tosee Mars grow progressively brighter and brighter throughout the month.Share this with your children and grandchildren. NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILLEVER SEE THIS AGAIN " so come one come all its tiime to go out and watch mars try to attack us :-P hehehe but seriously tho this sounds pretty neat, i know corri and i are gonna be watchin it :-D
*crumples in abject humiliation*
OK, naw, that's cool - as long as I can be a part of your new Geeky Throneship by gazing at it w/ you.
Hmm. (insert pacing cat >here< - the one that Prox uses sometimes)
Oh oh. Anyone know when it moves into Aries??? Ok, now I'm concerned. I think it's time to move to the mountains and become a recluse like I keep threatening.
(Dec. 16th, I think it says....although there's some veeerrry interestink stuff going on roun' 'bout Aug 27th/28th.)
<---Pacing Felix
Love that little mysterious planet!
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