Mars Moves In Close

[Tom]

Got this info from a co-worker, think its kind of neat.

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.

 

[frolf]

sorry bro

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_mars_encounter.htm

 

[Tom]

LOL, oh man. And to think I was going to mark my calendar for that date too.

 

[frolf]

haha, yeah, that was my gut instinct too.

 

[gpiron]

That e-mail has spread like powder. I got it too on August 4th...

Thanks Frolf, for keeping me from embarassing myself,... again... by having to send disclaimers - Yeap, I was about ready to forward...

Nothing better than the internet to spread anything... LOL

 

[imago]

i was this close to marking it on my calendar haha.