woody with a view
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Mars is coming
i got an email stating that Mars will come to within 34,000,000 miles of earth over the next few weeks culminating on Aug 27. Mars will be as bright
as the full moon and has not come that close in 5000 years......
if it's true it should be fairly awesome! anyone able to verify this via another source?
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Mexitron
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I've seen iterations of that email for several years...yes Mars is/was very close, and while as bright as the full moon per square unit perhaps, its
in reality just a brighter Mars than usual................
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Any word on Uranus????? 
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You missed it by a few years.
This took place in 2003.
Don't feel bad, I got the same mail from a friend.
Must make its way around the net.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
You missed it by a few years.
This took place in 2003.
Don't feel bad, I got the same mail from a friend.
Must make its way around the net. |
I remember wondering why there were 2 moons in the sky back then.
Thought it was just the moonshine.
I think the world is run by C- students.
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woody with a view
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
You missed it by a few years.
This took place in 2003.
Don't feel bad, I got the same mail from a friend.
Must make its way around the net. |
DAMN, i was battening down the hatches prepping for 2012.....
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No...I think it's a hoax
Was reading about this a few months ago. Might be this:
http://www.snopes.com/science/astronomy/brightmars.asp
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well you may have missed that mars but you can always catch another one at the candy counter.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by soulpatch
| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
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Capt. Kirk, Spock and the Klingons are there.
\"If you don\'t stand for something you will fall for anything.\" Soupy Sales
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acadist
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Seen by the moon?
| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
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Dave
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Sorry, but Snoops declairs the Mars story to be a hoax ...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by CaboRon
Sorry, but Snoops declairs the Mars story to be a hoax ... |
Its not entirely a hoax, as the article in snopes explains--Mars did have two close encounters with us, in 2003 and 2007, but as is usual with emails
things get embellished---Mars was just a little brighter than usual.
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Yes its a standard yearly mars hoax, something us amatuer astronomers have to dispell all the time.
If Mars were indeed the same size as the full moon in the sky it would be VERY bad for the Earth. Can you say tidaly ripped apart?
Think Bill Murrays line from Ghostbusters!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
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and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened\"
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
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I can see Uranus from my big deck!   
Two versions....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGMkEfuWZHM&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmHWg3dhEGQ
[Edited on 8-7-2010 by Bob H]
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woody with a view
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
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i don't get it?
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acadist
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Can you say Dec 2012!
| Quote: | Originally posted by astrobaja
Think Bill Murrays line from Ghostbusters!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria! |
Dave
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