2 moons Aug 27th....

I've got this from a friend in the USofA...

The time ot this event should be checked according to the geographic
location

Two moons on 27 August))

*Aug 27 the whole world is waiting for.............*

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 of 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.

!!

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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 .

September started early this year.

This will cultivate on Aug. 27

I suppose we should plant our seedlings on 27th August.

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ups.com...
I've got this from a friend in the USofA...

The time ot this event should be checked according to the geographic
location

Two moons on 27 August))

*Aug 27 the whole world is waiting for.............*

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 of 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.

!!


Weirdness as posted through a time warp from the opposition of 2003. And
it won't look as if the Earth has two moons, nor did it back in August 2003.

The 2007 opposition will take place on 24th December, but Mars will be much
further away and have a disk diameter of only about 15 arcsec.

Some media types got all excited about such things and imagined that somehow
Mars goes "spoing!" and jumps in real close to Earth for just the one night,
then "sprong!" jumps back the next day to be far away again. Someone picked
this up from an over the top 2003 article and must have recirculated it.

--
Mike Dworetsky

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On 15 Aug, 09:28, "Mike Dworetsky"
wrote:
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ups.com...



I've got this from a friend in the USofA...

The time ot this event should be checked according to the geographic
location

Two moons on 27 August))

*Aug 27 the whole world is waiting for.............*

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 of 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.

!!

Weirdness as posted through a time warp from the opposition of 2003. And
it won't look as if the Earth has two moons, nor did it back in August 2003.

The 2007 opposition will take place on 24th December, but Mars will be much
further away and have a disk diameter of only about 15 arcsec.

Some media types got all excited about such things and imagined that somehow
Mars goes "spoing!" and jumps in real close to Earth for just the one night,
then "sprong!" jumps back the next day to be far away again. Someone picked
this up from an over the top 2003 article and must have recirculated it.

--
Mike Dworetsky

(Remove pants sp*mbl*ck to reply)

Thanks for that one Mike, thought as much.

I've sent your reply back... don't worry it's only the salient bits...

Nick

In uk.sci.astronomy message
roups.com, Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:01:01, "
posted:

I've got this from a friend in the USofA...

You should choose your friends more judiciously. AIUI, it's a popular
fable among the ignorant. However, here but not there, June had two
full moons.

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This is precisely the annual hoax to which I referred in a post on about 5
Aug about an item on Spaceweather.com on 4 - 5th.

See
http://www.spaceweather.com/archive....2007&view=view