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Old August 23rd 06, 02:00 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Ok, this was kinda wierd to me but here it goes...:
My little brother's science teacher said that on August 27 Mars would
be the closest it was in 6000 years and it would be the size of a full
moon. I was mainly skeptical at first and my initial opinion was
confirmed while I was looking throught these forums and found a topic
like this. So, I told my brother to tell the teacher that it was merely
a rumor and the next day he told me "someone else told him it before I
could, but he still said it would be quite close". Now this even
further conflicted my brief research. I read that Mars is in fact on
the other side of the sun at this time. I could accept this all from
maybe a chain mail or spam... but here's the catch:
He got this info in a science journal. I have no clue which one but I
would think it wouldn't be something like Scientific American or
anything like that, it was probably a little kid's journal with the
intellogical equivalence of "Highlights" but how could any official
journal get information off that much? Is my Scientific American
getting articles from anonymous e-mails?!

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Old August 23rd 06, 02:04 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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wrote:
Ok, this was kinda wierd to me but here it goes...:
My little brother's science teacher said that on August 27 Mars would
be the closest it was in 6000 years


Your little brother's school needs to hire a new science teacher--stat.

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Old August 23rd 06, 02:10 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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"RMOLLISE" wrote in message
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wrote:
Ok, this was kinda wierd to me but here it goes...:
My little brother's science teacher said that on August 27 Mars would
be the closest it was in 6000 years


Your little brother's school needs to hire a new science teacher--stat.


This could be a hereditary thing, Rod, and may be best jes' lef' ALONE...

{;^)


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Old August 23rd 06, 02:39 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Richard Jarnagin
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Do a search on Google, and it will all become clear. Still, the science
teacher should have caught it.

RJ


wrote in message
oups.com...
Ok, this was kinda wierd to me but here it goes...:
My little brother's science teacher said that on August 27 Mars would
be the closest it was in 6000 years and it would be the size of a full
moon. I was mainly skeptical at first and my initial opinion was
confirmed while I was looking throught these forums and found a topic
like this. So, I told my brother to tell the teacher that it was merely
a rumor and the next day he told me "someone else told him it before I
could, but he still said it would be quite close". Now this even
further conflicted my brief research. I read that Mars is in fact on
the other side of the sun at this time. I could accept this all from
maybe a chain mail or spam... but here's the catch:
He got this info in a science journal. I have no clue which one but I
would think it wouldn't be something like Scientific American or
anything like that, it was probably a little kid's journal with the
intellogical equivalence of "Highlights" but how could any official
journal get information off that much? Is my Scientific American
getting articles from anonymous e-mails?!



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Old August 23rd 06, 02:54 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
St. John Smythe
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Richard Jarnagin wrote:
Do a search on Google, and it will all become clear. Still, the science
teacher should have caught it.


Heh...based on your and previous messages, I just went straight to
Snopes, and there it was:

http://www.snopes.com/science/mars.asp

--
St. John
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who
can't talk for people who can't read.
-Frank Zappa
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Old August 23rd 06, 02:58 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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wrote in news:1156294829.107964.307860
@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:

Ok, this was kinda wierd to me but here it goes...:
My little brother's science teacher said that on August 27 Mars would
be the closest it was in 6000 years and it would be the size of a full
moon. I was mainly skeptical at first and my initial opinion was
confirmed while I was looking throught these forums and found a topic
like this. So, I told my brother to tell the teacher that it was merely
a rumor and the next day he told me "someone else told him it before I
could, but he still said it would be quite close". Now this even
further conflicted my brief research. I read that Mars is in fact on
the other side of the sun at this time. I could accept this all from
maybe a chain mail or spam... but here's the catch:
He got this info in a science journal. I have no clue which one but I
would think it wouldn't be something like Scientific American or
anything like that, it was probably a little kid's journal with the
intellogical equivalence of "Highlights" but how could any official
journal get information off that much? Is my Scientific American
getting articles from anonymous e-mails?!


Without a cite of the actual "journal" there is no way to know. Once you
find out what the actual journal was, then an angry letter to the editor
would be in order.

Klazmon.





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Old August 23rd 06, 03:02 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Joe S.[_2_]
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wrote in message
oups.com...
Ok, this was kinda wierd to me but here it goes...:
My little brother's science teacher said that on August 27 Mars would
be the closest it was in 6000 years and it would be the size of a full
moon. I was mainly skeptical at first and my initial opinion was
confirmed while I was looking throught these forums and found a topic
like this. So, I told my brother to tell the teacher that it was merely
a rumor and the next day he told me "someone else told him it before I
could, but he still said it would be quite close". Now this even
further conflicted my brief research. I read that Mars is in fact on
the other side of the sun at this time. I could accept this all from
maybe a chain mail or spam... but here's the catch:
He got this info in a science journal. I have no clue which one but I
would think it wouldn't be something like Scientific American or
anything like that, it was probably a little kid's journal with the
intellogical equivalence of "Highlights" but how could any official
journal get information off that much? Is my Scientific American
getting articles from anonymous e-mails?!


The science teacher is three years out of date.

Mars made its closest approach to Earth in recorded history on 27 AUGUST
2003 -- that's 2003 -- as in 2003 -- three years ago.

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/mars...ew_021108.html

http://skytonight.com/observing/obje...tml?page=1&c=y

http://www.palmbeachastro.org/exotic/mars03.htm

http://www.bbsradio.com/cgi-bin/webb....pl?read=10885

God only knows why but for the past several weeks folks have been claiming
that Mars will approach Earth on 27 August 2007. Not so. Old news.


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Old August 23rd 06, 03:47 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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No, the thing I most wanted to ask is:
Do magazines sometimes print very out-of-date/ untrue articles? And I
mean, I know about gossip and stuff but what about stuff like
scientific journals?

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Old August 23rd 06, 05:24 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Anything is possible, but it would be an extremely rare occurrence in a
scientific journal.

RJ


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No, the thing I most wanted to ask is:
Do magazines sometimes print very out-of-date/ untrue articles? And I
mean, I know about gossip and stuff but what about stuff like
scientific journals?



 




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