MARS NEXT TO EARTH 27th - General

Dude when I heard this I was...I dont know but I started looking it up and I found cool stuff on it. So ya on the 27 OF THE MONTH mars will be right next to earth and the next time it will do the same is in 2287 so get your camara and video camaras and REDO STARWARS with no fake moon...but ya cant wait. Check it out, guess no one will get much sleep in August. Mars The Red Planet is about to be spectacular! This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287. Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the Last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as 60,000 years before it happens again. The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest 75-power magnification Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. Share this with your children and grandchildren. NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Next time you post something about an event like this be sure to include sources that prove it's no a hoax." - ventilated))[/highlight]

[quote]NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN [/quote] That sounds like a challenge to me. :colbert:

Source? Other than some spam you got in your e-mail?

Ooh, it got a tiny bit closer. Wow.

Dude I can just search for photos on the net.

I have a feeling my grand kids wouldn't care.

Dont have good sources but its spreading like crazy so ima waste my time on the 27th and record anything

I feel like this happens every year..

[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3184157.stm[/url] Apparently this was 6 years ago.

[url]http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/07jul_marshoax.htm[/url] According to this it's a hoax

hoax

god danmit...o well im still gana waste my time on that day. got nothing better to do :D

[url]http://www.snopes.com/science/astronomy/brightmars.asp[/url] Hmm, same words same story on that page.

[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8184351.stm[/url] Happens every year...

Hoax? Shit, I was planning on going to Mars and this seemed like a great way to save gas.

It was actually true in 2003... with a 75X magnification mars looked as big as the moon does without a telescope... so not that impressive really. (56,000,000km away that is.) And hardly once a lifetime, unless you're quite old and never saw it. Happens every 17 years.

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