27 august, mars closest to earth

[hurricane_r]

heard of george FM that mars will be closest ever to earth on 27 august,
providing its not cloudy u will *apparently be able to see mars the size of a full moon, dont quote me on this,

im pretty sure i heard this, or it was a very detailed dream,

[Colapop]

Yep ask Hitcher he'll tell you more...

[dawnrazor]

re-post

see mars attacks thread in rant and rave

[98tls]

:gob: yea yea.....and all the Fat Boy owners will buy clip ons....:yawn:

[Skunk]

heard of george FM that mars will be closest ever to earth on 27 august,
providing its not cloudy u will *apparently be able to see mars the size of a full moon, dont quote me on this,

im pretty sure i heard this, or it was a very detailed dream,
Wrong! That was 2003...


Orbital characteristics
On August 27, 2003, at 9:51:13 UT, Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years: 55,758,006 km (approximately 35 million miles) without Light-time correction. This occurred when Mars was one day from opposition and about three days from its perihelion, making Mars particularly easy to see from Earth. The last time it came so close is estimated to have been on September 12, 57,617 BC. Detailed analysis of the solar system's gravitational landscape forecasts an even closer approach in 2287. However, this record approach was only very slightly closer than other recent close approaches. For instance, the minimum distance on August 22, 1924 was 0.37284 AU, compared to 0.37271 AU on August 27, 2003, and the minimum distance on August 24, 2208 will be 0.37278 AU.[28]

[Sniper]

Repost and been discussed already.... :devil2:

[deeknow]

Yeah those GeorgeFM folks have been taking some pretty good drugs as usual. It wont be anywhere near as big as the moon, its closer that usual but it'll still be a little red dot basically. see the very bottom of this page for info (on the hoax)...

http://www.rasnz.org.nz/Events2006.htm

[hurricane_r]

nono 2003 it was close, now its closest just watch out on that date,

[Oakie]

Hah, was I ever wrong. There have been seven replies to this post and no one has even mentioned Uranus.

[Skunk]

nono 2003 it was close, now its closest just watch out on that date,
You have reading difficulties don't you?

[hurricane_r]

no i dont, why does every body seem more cheeky online than in person?.

[Sniper]

no i dont, why does every body seem more cheeky online than in person?.

10 foot tall bulletproof syndrome

[hurricane_r]

........................hahaha

[Skunk]

no i dont, why does every body seem more cheeky online than in person?.
I'm not. What's here is just louder.


Orbital characteristics
On August 27, 2003, at 9:51:13 UT, Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years: 55,758,006 km (approximately 35 million miles) without Light-time correction. This occurred when Mars was one day from opposition and about three days from its perihelion, making Mars particularly easy to see from Earth. The last time it came so close is estimated to have been on September 12, 57,617 BC. Detailed analysis of the solar system's gravitational landscape forecasts an even closer approach in 2287. However, this record approach was only very slightly closer than other recent close approaches. For instance, the minimum distance on August 22, 1924 was 0.37284 AU, compared to 0.37271 AU on August 27, 2003, and the minimum distance on August 24, 2208 will be 0.37278 AU.

[hurricane_r]

how does this affect me?, KB has a scientist?

[Skunk]

how does this affect me?, KB has a scientist?
In the simple terms; Mars will not be close on August 27 2006.

Do you also need to be shown how the above statement relates to the post that started this thread?

[Steam]

MARS HOAX

based on a press release by Marilyn Head, RASNZ Publicity Officer, and Brian Loader

Just when it seemed the Moon Hoax had been laid safely to rest, up pops another one even more bizarre than the suggestion that the 17 Apollo missions did not take place and no-one landed on the moon.

This time it is the Mars Hoax. A global email promising a spectacular event in late August that "no-one has ever seen before!" when Mars will look "as big as the moon" is circulating, much to the consternation of astronomers.

Vice-President of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand, Brian Loader, says the Society has been inundated with requests for more information about this bogus event which dates from the August 2003 opposition of Mars when the red planet came closer than it has for thousands of years, and was very spectacular. The hoax email has re-surfaced in August each year since then.

However even in 2003, Mars certainly did not appear as big as the moon as the email seems to promise. You have to read the it carefully to see it says that when Mars was magnified 75 times through a telescope, it looked as big as the moon to the unaided eye!"

In August this year, Mars is very low in the sky and only just visible briefly after sunset. It is fairly bright, but not as spectacular as Jupiter, the only planet that is well placed for observing this month.

Some parts of Europe will see Mars occulted by the Moon on August 25th but this event is not visible in the southern Hemisphere.

It is disappointing that the Internet is being used to promote such misinformation, particularly when children are encouraged to anticipate something that does not and cannot happen. Just as children can be turned on to science by observing many celestial wonders, they can be turned off when it appears that "science" has let them down by failing to meet unrealistic expectations.