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Mars will be closest to Earth

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  • 02-08-2010 9:33pm
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    kleefarr
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    Got an email this morning stating that Mars will be at its closest to Earth for the next 5000 years, during the month of August, mainly around the end of August. It will be the second brightest and biggest object in the sky after the moon.

    Is this true or false?

    Sounds amazing if true.


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    kleefarr
    Registered Users Posts: 5,743 ✭✭✭kleefarr


    FFS!!! I knew it. Poxy farking emails.

    http://space.about.com/library/weekly/blmarsclose2.htm :mad:

    Sorry for wasting your time guys. :(


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    Beeker
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    kleefarr wrote: »
    Got an email this morning stating that Mars will be at its closest to Earth for the next 5000 years, during the month of August, mainly around the end of August. It will be the second brightest and biggest object in the sky after the moon.

    Is this true or false?

    Sounds amazing if true.
    This happens every year. Not true!!!!:mad:


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    ynotdu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭ynotdu


    Beeker wrote: »
    This happens every year. Not true!!!!:mad:

    What Beaky??? The Earth does not orbit the Sun every Year,NO not more LIES i have been led to believe in:mad:

    oppss sorry tis Mars is the subject matter!

    *sorry the divil makes work for idle hands*


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    Beeker
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    ynotdu wrote: »
    What Beaky??? The Earth does not orbit the Sun every Year,NO not more LIES i have been led to believe in:mad:

    oppss sorry tis Mars is the subject matter!

    *sorry the divil makes work for idle hands*
    :D Stay off the little blue pills ynotdu:D:D


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    backboiler
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    Jupiter is now visible every (non-cloudy) night lowish in the sky in the east to south-east in the hours after sunset and it's feckin' massive!
    It's about 46 arc-seconds across now and by the 19th of September it'll be 50" across. That's about the same apparent size as the Tycho crater on the moon, the big one near the 7 o'clock position on a full moon.

    This one: 6034073


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    J. Ramone
    Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭J. Ramone


    I checked out Jupiter with binoculars (7 x 42) to check which planet it was. Came to the conclusion it was Jupiter as several moons are visible with the bins. Just came here to be sure!


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    Flukey
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    That's Jupiter alright. Even with just binoculars you can see its moons. As to that Mars e-mail, it turns up about this time every year. Usually you hear people saying that it will look as big as the moon. That e-mail will now head off and makes its orbit and we'll see it again next year. :)


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