> 2 Moons on 27 Aug 2006

dikesm

2 Moons on 27 Aug 2006

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 34.65M
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.

ninjakannon · Last edited by ninjakannon on Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:56 pm; edited 1 time in total

Ooo, fasinating. The only reason that it will look 'as big as the moon' is because your brain thinks that it must be arround the same size as the moon, so it resizes it for you. I don't quite get this as you would expect that the things arround Mars would appear distorted, but they don't.

Also, a scientist reciently said that he thought that - due to new scientific developments - someone alive today would live to 1000. Although this is debateable, the person would live to see the next 2 or 3 of these occurencies.

Let's hope the night isn't cloudy. Smile

jb2_86_uk

This is a hoax. you fool!. lol im kidding, it is a hoak and loads of people fall for this... still.. despite being the tenth time I have heard this (albeit with different dates). Mars was closest to the earth as it will be for a very very very long time a couple of years ago, and then it was visable to the naked eye, but only as the brightest star in the sky.

If mars appeared as large as the moon, then we would be in some serious sh!t

I guess youre one of these people who believe 'msn is going to start charging us to use hotmail unless we forward this email to 20,000 people in the next 3 minutes'

JB

Kaneda

Mars being the closest to earth in a long time on August 27 was true. In 2003. And it didn't look even remotely like Earth had 2 moons.

Mster

This is just stupid haow can mars be as big as the moon just thiink about it, well if I am i'm guessing it would be a magnnificent view Smile

The Czar

That can't be true ... At a few million miles away right?

ninjakannon

jwellsy

http://www.snopes.com/science/mars.asp

Yes, it's a hoax that goes around pretty much every year.

ninjakannon

william

This can not be correct for multiple reasons. The first reason is because in August of 2003, the red planet was 35 million miles or about 56 million kilometers away from the earth. That was extrairdinary close, and it won't come that close for quite some time. (Could be thousands of years.) At that time, Mars appeared about six times bigger and many times brighter than it usually is. It could easily be seen with the naked eye and looked almost as big as the moon with decent binoculars. (Even bigger with a powerful telescope.) Every 15 or so years, Mars comes pretty close to Earth, though not as close. Along with that, when the red planet appeared in August of 2003, it still appeared smaller than the moon to the naked eye. It wasn't even close to the size of the moon. So how can it happen now? Anyway, this statement is definetly incorrect.

You can read more about it at the National Aeronautics Space Administration's (NASA) website.

Nasa-Beware the Mars Hoax