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Two moons on 27th August 2010
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 7:18 pm
by Mikey84
Heres an interesting topic for all you space geeks out there
Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August.
It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will cultivate
on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles off earth. Be sure to watch the sky
on Aug. 27 12:30 am. It will look like the earth has 2 moons.
The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.
NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again.
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Re: Two moons on 27th August 2010
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 7:21 pm
by laidback
Interesting eh....where do you find this stuff...hehehe
Re: Two moons on 27th August 2010
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 7:26 pm
by Mikey84
laidback1952 wrote:Interesting eh....where do you find this stuff...hehehe
you would be suprised the shit i get e-mailed to me
Re: Two moons on 27th August 2010
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 7:29 pm
by robracer
2 Moons, well the first thought was this pic (Cropped to protect the innocent)
Re: Two moons on 27th August 2010
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 7:37 pm
by Mikey84
Re: Two moons on 27th August 2010
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:19 am
by ty
Re: Two moons on 27th August 2010
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:57 pm
by seiko1
Saved me the trouble
Re: Two moons on 27th August 2010
Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:22 pm
by Gosling1
its the biggest load of horseshit ever.
The moon is about 380,000km? away from the Earth. Mars is about 60 million km away, on its closest run past Earth !! It would have to swing a farken long way out of its orbit to appear 'as big as the moon' !!
This all kicked off back in about 2002 or 2003, when Mars did in fact make its closest approach to Earth in quite some millenia. At no point was it ever going to be 'as big as the moon' - but it was quite bright and very red in the sky, and clearly visible at night as the Red planet.
Every year since, around August without fail - the same bullshit about Mars appearing 'as big as the moon' gets regurgitated on the Net. Its a load of crap.
Having said all that - there was a fantastic once-in-a-lifetime Grand Cross in the night sky the week before last. The crescent moon appeared at the foot of the T, and Mars, Venus, Saturn and Mercury formed the cross-bar of the T. The 4 planets were directly aligned in a vertical line, this Grand T only appeared just after sunset. Really amazing formation, and not something you see every day or indeed every lifetime.
