Friday, July 14, 2006

Text Announcement: Planet Mars will be brightest in the night starting August. It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will culminate on August 27 when Mars comes to within 34.65M miles of the earth. Be sure to watch the sky on August 27, 12:30AM. It will look like the earth has two moons. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.
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2 comments:

  1. Mama Bird9:44 PM

    I got all excited about being able to see Mars so well without a telescope. Then I looked it up. Alas, it's not true; this is just an urban legend:
    http://www.snopes.com/science/mars.asp

    Sigh.

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  2. nedrow4:15 PM

    Thanks for the info. I'd better delete it if it's just a legend.

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