Do a Google search using
mars close approach
The 2nd top entry returned is:
Mars and Earth pass closer to each other than at any time during the last 60000 years.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3184157.stm - 36k - 26 Aug 2006
It is wrong because when you click that entry and look at the date of the report at the very top, it is Aug 27 2003.
The BBC have left this report hanging on Cyberspace and kids surfing have found it and assumed, very easily from the title, that is is this year.
All the other misinformation has just ballooned out of this as the kids have emailed their friends, who have emailed their friends, and so on until millions of gullible people have believed it to be true.
If any of the people who have suddenly, inexplicably, gotten an interest in Mars had a real interest, they would have got hold of a book on Mars, or researched some more on the internet, and learned enough in five minutes reading to know that this was misinformation.
2006-08-27 09:13:33 · 6 answers · asked by nick s 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Nonsense. Mars is quite close, why, this poster (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AohdDt2ExxDoPaIBaO4300Lzy6IX?qid=20060827131137AApps6w ) reported seeing a Martian just a few minutes ago :)
2006-08-27 09:17:55 · answer #1 · answered by rahidz2003 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mars is set till next April .
It's a hoax..
I heard about the Mars hoax and the answer is no . I'll tell you the real scoop on it . In 2003 it was in fact true ! Mars was the closest it's ever been on August 27 2003 .
The next year a New York Observatory reprinted the story again on the August 27th date for a joke . It was hown in the states on the local news and they said " The latest Mars craze is going on again this year , It was said to be started again by a new york observatory as a joke and well it's been listed as spam. And it currently is circulating the internet as a forward . We spoke to our local astronomers to get the story and they showed us where Mars is . Under the horizon till next year. t's completely not true this year , It did actually happen last in 2003 as we all know but this time it's a joke. an April fools joke . No madness intended . "
So it's been floating around for 2 years . Actually there is alot of it going around, crazy emails floating areound of it , observatory phones ringing off the hook .
It has turned into one big hoax . For further reading put in Mars Hoax into google & google news .
Next year the Mars Hoax will float again I bet !
If your interested, you can see more of Mars hoax in the news ..
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=mars+hoax&btnG=Search+News
2006-08-29 02:10:03 · answer #2 · answered by spaceprt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We were invaded by Martians back in the 1940's.
Here's a picture of a breeding pair from the 1960's. Be on the lookout for them. They could be trying to take over our government.
2006-08-27 17:07:31 · answer #3 · answered by SPLATT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Listen, I can look at Mars any night of the week and tell you that it isn't as close as it was in 2003...I believe my eyes before I believe the press!
2006-08-27 17:01:22 · answer #4 · answered by synchronicity915 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.petitiononline.com/PP896/petition.html
save pluto by signing this petition
2006-08-27 16:24:20 · answer #5 · answered by kill b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thank you,Finnaly someone who understands
2006-08-27 16:36:25 · answer #6 · answered by hkyboy96 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋