27 august, mars closest to earth

**hurricane_r** · 15th August 2006, 22:05

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** · 15th August 2006, 22:09

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

**dawnrazor** · 15th August 2006, 22:10

re-post

see mars attacks thread in rant and rave

**98tls** · 15th August 2006, 22:12

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

**Skunk** · 15th August 2006, 22:23

Originally Posted by 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,

Wrong! That was 2003...

Originally Posted by wikipedia.org

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** · 15th August 2006, 22:32

Repost and been discussed already....

**deeknow** · 15th August 2006, 22:37

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** · 16th August 2006, 19:29

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

**Oakie** · 16th August 2006, 20:26

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

**Skunk** · 16th August 2006, 20:35

Originally Posted by hurricane_r

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

You have reading difficulties don't you?

**hurricane_r** · 16th August 2006, 22:01

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

**Sniper** · 16th August 2006, 22:05

Originally Posted by hurricane_r

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

10 foot tall bulletproof syndrome

**hurricane_r** · 16th August 2006, 22:17

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

**Skunk** · 17th August 2006, 07:41

Originally Posted by hurricane_r

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

I'm not. What's here is just louder.

Originally Posted by wikipedia.org

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.