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Nothing happened.
Sorry you missed it.

2007-07-30 23:36:04 · answer #1 · answered by Labsci 7 · 2 0

Wow, you ARE mixed up. It is like that children's game where a while 30 student class forms a circle and one person is given a story and he whispers it to the next child, who whispers it to the next one and so on until the story goes all the way around the circle. The last one tells the story out loud and it is ALWAYS totally wrong, because each telling of the story makes another mistake or distortion.

Here is the origin of your story:

On August 27, 2003, Mars came closer to Earth than at any other time in the last 50,000 years. While it was technically closer than usual, it was only about 1% closer, so the difference was not that important. Someone reported that you should be able to see it with a back yard telescope about as well as people can see the Moon without a telescope.

This got incorrectly reported by the TV and papers as if Mars would appear in our sky as big as the moon.

This story have been repeated every August ever since.

This year it has somehow changed from Mars to Pluto.

And now you are reporting it as July 27 instead of August 27.

Funny thing....

2007-07-31 09:58:17 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0 0

It was a reworking of the internet hoax that came out a couple of years ago claiming that Mars would look as big as the Moon. Only this time they claimed that it would be Pluto that would appear as a "second moon". Complete BS, because it would require Pluto to leave orbit and zoom more than 4 billion miles in three days to a point inside the orbit of the Moon.

They've already sent out almost the same message saying that now it will happen on August 27th. What a crock.

In the words of "Mickey Blue Eyes" -- fuggedaboudit!

2007-07-31 09:37:51 · answer #3 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 0 0

It was an internet hoax, predicting a totally impossible astronomical event.

2007-07-31 06:54:00 · answer #4 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 1 0

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