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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl

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Mary Beth
Stanwood Wa 98292
USA
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Posted - Aug 18 2007 :  10:18:01 PM  Show Profile
Two moons on August 27, 2007, the Whole World is
>> waiting for it.
>> >Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky
>> starting in August.
>> >It will look as large as the full moon to the naked
>> eye.
>> >This will cultivate on August 27 when Mars comes
>> within
>> >
>> >34.65M miles of earth.
>> >
>> >Be sure to watch the sky on August 27 @ 12:30 am.
>> >It will look like the earth has 2 Moons.
>> >
>> >The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.
>> >Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY
>> will ever see it
>> >again.


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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl

22941 Posts

Alee
Worland Wy
USA
22941 Posts

Posted - Aug 18 2007 :  11:34:01 PM  Show Profile  Send Alee a Yahoo! Message
http://www.snopes.com/science/mars.asp

A couple pages I looked at said this was a hoax, sorry! It sounds like it will be closer and a bit bigger, but not very much so to the naked eye. But it would have been really neat to see two moons, eh?

Alee
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queenofdreamsz4u
True Blue Farmgirl

3845 Posts

Stephanie Suzanne
Smoky Mountains Tennessee
USA
3845 Posts

Posted - Aug 19 2007 :  12:09:37 AM  Show Profile
A Big Hoax..LOL This particular message has been floating around the internet for 2 years that I know of.

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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl

6418 Posts

Mary Beth
Stanwood Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts

Posted - Aug 19 2007 :  06:40:28 AM  Show Profile
A hoax it is. You are right I remember seeing it before so I checked it out and and it is a HOAX. Oh well. MB

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jo Thompson
True Blue Farmgirl

603 Posts

Jo
the mountainside of the Chugach in Alaska
USA
603 Posts

Posted - Aug 19 2007 :  07:38:44 AM  Show Profile
Mary Beth, I am going to go out on August 27th and imagine two moons just for you, it would have been very nice..........

Soon, we'll be able to see our northern lights again, and a winter night sky that feels like you can dip your finger into it! jo

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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl

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Mary Beth
Stanwood Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts

Posted - Aug 19 2007 :  1:30:04 PM  Show Profile
Thanks Jo. I'll be looking too. I think if you cross your eyes you can see two. I've been practising. MB

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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl

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Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts

Posted - Aug 19 2007 :  1:34:04 PM  Show Profile
Or if you have two glasses of wine, the two moons will be quite real....... hmmmm, I might try that.

:)

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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl

2552 Posts

Tasha-Rose
St. Paul Minnesota
2552 Posts

Posted - Aug 19 2007 :  2:08:14 PM  Show Profile
the gravity involved makes this impossible, were Mars close enough to look as big as our Moon, we would surely crash into each other. I didn't read any of the snopes or factorfiction stories behind it, but I am sure it may look nice and big in a powerful telescope....Did no one play gravity on the computer in middle school?

Earth's mass: http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-199814
Mars' mass: http://www.mcwdn.org/SPACE/Mars.html

Were it close enough to us and move faster than our moon to appear as our moon does. it would have to be closer than our moon as it has less of a gravity(11%) compared to the earth than the moon(17%)does. Chances are, if it, in it's continuous orbit around the sun, we going to have a transit that looked like our moon, it would crash into us.

It's plain physics.

ETA: that sounded snottier than I intended it to. I just really loath hoax emails, so they tend to bring out the logical fact finder in me, and I didn't even need to really fact find sans for providing those links about the mass of Mars and the Earth


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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl

4033 Posts

Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
4033 Posts

Posted - Aug 19 2007 :  2:38:36 PM  Show Profile
Okay, I love it cause it just got us to talking where true or false,now we know, I shall have a glass of wine and cross my eyes, sounds good to me.
Carol Sue

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