Post by B on Aug 27, 2007 9:38:25 GMT -5
Recently I received this email, which I knew to be erroneous:
"Two moons on 27th August 2007
27th August; 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 culminate 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.
Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again."
Uh, "It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye."
?? !!!!
It had better not!"
I didn't know that there was going to be a lunar eclipse that day:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20425640/wid/11915829?GT1=10252
The lunar eclipse actually occurs in the wee hours of the 28th, but to many it will seem like
the night of the 27th. I wonder if the email above is meant to suggest that
people might see something unusual while the moon is being eclipsed, and mistake it
for the moon, while the the moon will be looking like Mars due to the eclipse.
Mars actually isn't terribly close right now.
"Two moons on 27th August 2007
27th August; 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 culminate 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.
Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again."
Uh, "It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye."
?? !!!!It had better not!"
I didn't know that there was going to be a lunar eclipse that day:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20425640/wid/11915829?GT1=10252
The lunar eclipse actually occurs in the wee hours of the 28th, but to many it will seem like
the night of the 27th. I wonder if the email above is meant to suggest that
people might see something unusual while the moon is being eclipsed, and mistake it
for the moon, while the the moon will be looking like Mars due to the eclipse.
Mars actually isn't terribly close right now.
