Planet Mars and the Moon!

A friend in Connecticut sent this to me. The times will probaly be a bit different
for us but looks interesting for anybody into astronomy.
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"Planet Mars will be the brightest object in the night sky during August.

Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye.

This will culminate on Aug. 27, when Mars comes within 34.65M miles of earth.


On Aug. 27. at 12:30 am, it will look like the earth has 2 moons.
The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.



Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again."

 

Evening, jj. Didn't put this up but I received this last week, virtually the same thing ...


"Two moons on 27 August

Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August.

It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will culminate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles of earth.
Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am. It will look like the earth has 2 moons.

The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.

Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again."

Same thing going around ????

I shall keep a lookout however ... just in case!

 

Evening LoL

Do you think it is just a joke then?

 

Well, it's why I didn't put it up as my source is a bit "dodgy" with things, shall we say ... t'other half says yes for sure ...

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/hsblog/2007/08/two-moons-on-august-27-i-dont-think-so.html

 

All they have on the BBC site about Mars this month is...
Mars
The red planet rises in the east just before midnight in mid-month. This means that it is high in the south-east sky by the time dawn arrives.
An event well worth staying up for ââ?¬â?? if you're the late-to-bed type ââ?¬â?? happens between the 18th and 25th. Then Mars will appear to be an extra star in the Hyades star cluster of Taurus, the Bull.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/myspace/nightsky/observingnotes.shtml

I also checked it out on hoax slayer and they say the email was true in 2003 but not now, the website for this is
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/mars-earth-close.html

 

snap

 

Thanks peeps

My source was quite reliable - I thought!

 

It's a joke.

 

To be put in the same file as, "Man didn't really land on the moon"

 

We agree cajary ... we both worked for NASA ... but we're going to be up on deck tonight looking ... how sad is that? :D

 

Extremely sad, Lady. :D ... but I envy you for your time working for NASA :( . I'll get the scope out shortly. The last time I looked at Mars, there was a big dust storm and I could see bxxxxr all!!