i got an email on the 25th saying that on the 27th of august mars will come within 36million miles of earth and if you looked at the sky at night it will seem as though there were two moons, i forgot to check this but 3 people have told me they saw it, and apparently it will happen again in 3026 or summit
2007-09-07 03:42:45 · 14 answers · asked by Rodman 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Mars is a Planet.
2007-09-07 03:46:35 · answer #1 · answered by elizadushku 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately, the e-mail about Mars being close on Aug. 27
is 4 years old and some fools are still passing it around on
e-mail circuits. Mars and Earth came close in their orbits
on Aug. 27, 2003 but even then to the unaided eye, Mars
looked like a bright orange star. Through a telescope you
could see various surface features and polar caps. Earth
does pass Mars in orbit every 780 days (2 yrs + 50 days)
and will pass Mars again about December 24, 2007, when
Mars will again be close enough to see easily, although not
quite so close as in 2003. Too bad some clowns are still
passing around this 4-year-old notice every year; either
they don't know any better or they are playing a practical
joke whose humor I fail to see. However, look forward to
seeing Mars this coming December. You can already see
it in the morning sky as a bright orange star if you get up
before dawn. So enjoy it!
2007-09-07 03:56:40 · answer #2 · answered by Reginald 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
What these knuckle heads are trying to say to you -- albeit rudely -- is that that was an email hoax. Mars will never get so close to the Earth that it'll look as big as the moon. When it got close in 2003, I got to see it through a very strong telescope, and it still just looked like a little orangeish star -- but you could make out the tiny white polar ice cap.
2007-09-07 03:56:11 · answer #3 · answered by Acorn 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No one saw it, because it never happened, never COULD happen. Not in 2007, not in 2003, not in 3026. Anyone who claims to have seen it is either lying or was dumb enough to think that the lunar eclipse that night was Mars. It was a hoax.
2007-09-07 04:08:25 · answer #4 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Who ever told you they saw that ask them what they were smoking. The article comes out every few years when the alignment of Luna and Mars are in the close orbit of Mars. however there is zero chance that Mars will ever appear to be the same size as the moon. When one considers the fractional AU of Mars and it's mass there is zero chance that this will ever happen.
2007-09-07 04:06:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The email you refer to was a hoax. Mars is to far away to ever appear the same size as the moon to the naked eye. As for the 3 people that saw it, ask them what they were drinking.
2007-09-07 15:33:41 · answer #6 · answered by JOHN H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my god, come on people, do you need to post this thing 7 thousand different times? No, you didn't see mars. These crackpot friends of yours saw a lunar eclipse, which i don't how they can confuse with the planet mars, but o well.
The scam (which apparently worked) made it seem like the lunar eclipse was actually the planet mars....which in reality never gets that close to our orbit.
Ok? Can we end this now?
2007-09-07 03:55:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
It is true that two moons can be observed in one month of which one of the two is a blue moon.
HOwer we can only observe one occurence at one time.
As per Pauli principle of exclusion. The moon can only be at one place at a time ,not two places at the same time.
2007-09-07 04:15:37 · answer #8 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just today i received an email for a job offer from china... a free vacation to Hawaii... i won a lottery... and the ubiquitous emails for pills to make my johnson harder and longer.
don't believe everything you read. Mars looks pretty much the same, pretty much all the time, but if it gets you outside looking up...
Tomorrow night there will be a meteor shower with topless dancing girls throwing jell-o. See your local amateur astronomy club for details. Bring friends.
2007-09-07 03:54:02 · answer #9 · answered by Faesson 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
That wasn't two moons. It was a total lunar eclipse.
2007-09-07 06:55:44 · answer #10 · answered by Navigator 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋