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Topic: August 27 Mars will look as large as the full moon!
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SunChild
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From: Melbourne. Victoria. Australia
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted July 21, 2005 12:36 AM
  
I received this in an email:By August 27, Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye.
>Mars will be easy to spot. Read this !!!!
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>Mars is going to be a second moon of earth for a day. The Red Planet (MARS) is about to be spectacular! This month and next,
>Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in
>the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history.
>The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287. Due to the way
>Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can
>only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the last
>5,000 years, but it may be as long as 60,000 years before it happens
>again.
>The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within
>34,649,589 miles of Earth and will be (next to the moon) the brightest
>object in the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and will
>appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. By August 27, Mars will look as large as
>the full moon to the naked eye. Mars will be easy to 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 at nightfall and reach its highest point in
>the sky at 12:30a.m. That's pretty convenient to see something that no
>human being has seen in recorded history. So, mark your calendar at the
>beginning of August to see Mars grow progressively brighter and brighter
>throughout the month.
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soljourney
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posted July 21, 2005 12:42 AM
If you remember, this already happened a couple of years ago. This article is old. This is not going to happen in 2005, it alreay happened in (if I recall correctly) 2003.-Sol IP: Logged |
SunChild
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posted July 21, 2005 12:48 AM
What really? Now I feel silly!  I must have been living under a rock!
Why would someone send this to me now? LOL ------------------
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A weasel
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posted July 21, 2005 01:12 AM
Oh shoot, i missed itIP: Logged |
goldielox512
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posted July 21, 2005 08:58 PM
i read that this will happen this coming august in 2 weeks it will start and grow bigger and bigger as the month goes on. it was on aol news just a couple weeks agoIP: Logged |
DayDreamer
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posted July 21, 2005 10:06 PM
hehe SunChild I remember reading this two years ago! And I think someone else on LL posted a similar article this year too...so you're not the only one!! Blame it on Mercury going retrograde  IP: Logged |
lovely*
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posted July 21, 2005 10:42 PM
Hey guys.. look what I found. This is a great website for double checking things out.
http://www.snopes.com/science/mars.asp & Sunchild, don't worry.. I fell for it..twice  I had my telescope out two years ago..it wasn't that spectacular, but it does look like mars will be close again in Oct. 05' Melissa IP: Logged |
DayDreamer
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posted July 21, 2005 11:02 PM
That's right lovely!  They're even talking about the email you received on this website about Mars...
http://space.about.com/od/astronomynews/a/marsclose2005_2.htm IP: Logged |
lovely*
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posted July 21, 2005 11:15 PM
DD the picture of Mars to the right of the article looks like a smiley..weird.IP: Logged |
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