I got an e-mail saying that through the month of August we can see Mars with the naked eye. It supposedly will rise in the east after 10pm and the the month goes on it will get brighter and look like the size of a full moon. They also said that it happened 5,000 years ago and will not happen again in our lifetime.
2006-08-01 07:29:47 · 22 answers · asked by ? 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I too got that email. It will be seen on Aug 27, I am not sure of the facts of it unless I reallly sea it on that day, However this phenomenon occurs more frequently (cetainly once in a lifetime) but not once in 5000 years.
2006-08-01 07:51:27 · answer #1 · answered by tuhinrao 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes i got a mail saying...." Two Moons visible on 27 August '06. Chance of a LIFETIME
Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting next August 2006.
It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye.
This will cultimate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65 M miles of Earth.
Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am. It will look like the Earth has 2 Moons. Don't Miss it.....
The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.
NOTE : Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again. ONLY LIFETIME CHANCE THIS TIME....."
2006-08-01 07:37:49 · answer #2 · answered by Rohan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi Rhonda,
If you just got that e-mail recently, it is sadly out of date (not to mention highly exaggerated). I suppose the Nigerian man who sent the e-mail offered you $28 million as well as Mars and the moon. (giggles)
This month of August, 2006, you will not see Mars at all unless you happen to be in the Southern Hemisphere and you know exactly where to look. It does not "rise after 10 p.m." this month, it is not bright, and of course it will not even remotely resemble the full moon.
Mars is rapidly moving into the evening twilight this month, such that it can no longer been seen in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern, it manages to stay just far enough above the horizon that you might be able to glimpse it an hour after sundown from places like Rio and Sydney early in the month, but even there it fades as August wears on.
The next time you can hope to catch Mars at its best will be around Christmastime, 2007. Please deposit the $28 million to my account!
Anne Marie
2006-08-01 14:53:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anne Marie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That e-mail went around last year and if memory serves me right, the year before. Mars was actually the closest it's been to Earth a few years ago, but you should still be able to see the red dot in the sky. Mars is way too far away to be in the appearance of the size of our Moon.
2006-08-01 07:58:02 · answer #4 · answered by phileprincess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a well-known email hoax that's been floating around in various forms for years. Please give a stern lecture to the "friend" who forwarded it to you (make them feel properly embarassed).
Mars has been seen with the naked eye (except for times when it is on the other side of the sun) for as long as humans have looked at the night sky. Ancient cultures have long known about it (which is why it is part of astrology).
Mars will never appear the same size as the full moon. (Too bad, that would be beautiful.) It will always look like very bright, and slightly reddish star.
2006-08-01 09:08:13 · answer #5 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mars is on the opposite side of the Sun this time of the year. It is about 2.521AU from Earth. You will need a telescope to see it.
I have included a website that has a simulator of Mars and Earth orbits. You can see how each planets position with respect to the other by date, month, year. Check it out.
2006-08-01 07:35:39 · answer #6 · answered by galactic_man_of_leisure 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been looking at Mars with the naked eye for years. It is easy. It is sometimes as bright as the brightest statrs but never looks like the size of the full moon.
2006-08-01 08:22:54 · answer #7 · answered by andyoptic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a hoax. If Mars came close enough to appear the same size as the full moon, it would change our gravitational pull, and would raise horrendous tides. It will appear as a pinprick red star, like it normally does. See the link below for further details.
2006-08-01 07:36:31 · answer #8 · answered by Georgia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mars got here in the route of Earth on August twenty seventh, 2003 than it has are available ~fifty 4,000 years, and to that end an evil rumor has abounded that it will do this each and every August considering that then, yet it really is thoroughly fake. Mars is presently seen in the evening sky merely previously sundown even if that is amazingly faint and that is on the different aspect of the photo voltaic equipment from us at modern, quickly to vanish at the back of the solar. it is going to come extremely on the threshold of Earth back in December, 2007, yet no longer virtually as close as 2003, or 2005 for that remember. It comes "on the threshold of Earth" each and every 2.2 years, yet some close approaches are alot closer than others. the subsequent somewhat close mindset isn't until eventually 2018, yet even then it isn't as close as 2003. you've gotten to attend yet another fifty 4,000 years for that. Or yet in a special thanks to verify Mars up close is to really bypass there to visit, which NASA plans to do in ~2020 or so. For a really sturdy nuts and bolts engineering communicate for the layman on an easily vacation to Mars, I quite recommend the e book "The Case for Mars" with suggestions from Dr Robert Zubrin, PhD, accessible on Amazon and in a lot of close by bookstores.
2016-11-27 19:22:02 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I have took Astronomy this summer. Saw mars at a certain time of night. Have to be out of the city tho there are too many lights in the city which cause the sighting to be polluted. Nice view tho.
2006-08-01 07:43:32 · answer #10 · answered by Lucy Lu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋