Thursday, August 16, 2007

Just for Fun: Two Moons August 27

I received this in my mailbox this morning and thought this was interesting. Have any of you heard about this?

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Mark your calendar!

Two moons on 27th August 2007*; the day the Whole World is waiting for.
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
cultivate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65 Million 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. NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it
again.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

OK, it sounded a bit too good to be true. Turns out it's not. Check out the following websites:
http://www.universetoday.com/2007/07/25/will-the-mars-look-as-big-as-the-moon-on-august-27-nope/#more-11448
and from the last time this story circulated:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/07jul_marshoax.htm