We will never see this in our life time...

[Frenzy13]

...again, nor will the people of the next 50-to-1,000 Life Times!


Mars, The Red Planet is about to be spectacular!

This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that
will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in
recorded history. The next time Mars may come this close is
in 2287. Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on
Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be
certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth
in the Last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as
60,000 years before it happens again.

The encounter will culminate on August 27th when
Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and
will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in
the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9
and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest
75-power magnification...



Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye.

Mars will be easy to spot. At the
beginning of August it will rise in the east at 10p.m.
and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m.

By the end of August when the two planets are
closest, Mars will rise at nightfall and reach its
highest point in the sky at 12:30a.m. That's pretty
convenient to see something that no human being has
seen in recorded history. So, mark your calendar at
the beginning of August to see Mars grow
progressively brighter and brighter throughout the
month.


Share this with your children and grandchildren.

NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN

Got this in my email from my mom so I thought I'd share it with this community.

"Live long and prosper." - Spock, Star Trek.

[JMixedDS13M]

hey that's freaking cool man. i love astronomy. several years ago we were looking at mars at a park near griffith observatory and i think it was it's closest it was in like 20000 years or something. nothing like seeing the polar caps and canyons on that planet

[blu808]

Thats some weird shit.

[ManoNegra]

Hmmm... I wonder how it's gravitational pull will affect our orbit and tides. If at all...

[radhaz]

Erm, this might be an "urban legend" propagated via email. Snopes has some suspiciously similar info on its site here (http://www.snopes.com/science/mars.asp) :-/

[Tenchuu]

you fail at copy and pasteing

The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide.
*******At a modest 75-power magnification Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye.******
Mars will be easy to spot. At the beginning of August it will rise in the east at 10p.m. and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m.

fullarticle @
http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/108177.html

most likeley a hoax

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_mars_encounter.htm
http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/175663.htm



so after reading that i find it hard to belive that and Radhaz, i find it hard to belive that this EXACt letter from 2003 is still true in 2006

['90RPS13]

Yeah. I was/am a huge space nerd. I could sit and watch TLC for hours about black holes and such. I will be scoping (no pun intended) out a new telescope for this. Thanks for the heads up! *a

[Frenzy13]

you fail at copy and pasteing

Why is there always someone on the look out for someone else's mistakes??
Seriously though, it's there exactly how it was sent to me. So I don't fail at anything, and if you wanna say I fail at that then you fail at spelling. PASTING, not PASTEING.

Christ all mighty....

[BRB26]

space is rad. i wish i didnt ditch astronomy all the time though..

[ThatGuy]

Hoax, end of story.

[Frenzy13]

And one last thing hoax's usually aren't on NASA's website...


http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/watchtheskies/18jun_approachingmars.html

[ThatGuy]

And one last thing hoax's usually aren't on NASA's website...


http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/watchtheskies/18jun_approachingmars.html

You do realize you just owned yourself with that link, correct? It states right there on the NASA webpage, that this was valid in 2003, which makes it a HOAX in 2006. :bow:

[JMixedDS13M]

anybody have direct tv? if so anyone watch channel 376? it's the nasa channel. some cool stuff is on there from time to time as well as ubdated meetings held on the status of all active projects as well as future plans of space exploration and historic documentaries on space. good stuff

[Frenzy13]

:duh: :duh: :duh: Yep I'm retarded, oh well.

[anthony240]

yea i was gonna say 'uh, didn't that happen already?'

but now i'm saying 'oh ok then'.

['90RPS13]

ah shit. definately missed it then. shit, wasnt that important then. *a

[alexchanman]

hhahahah pwnz0red

[ManoNegra]

damn, and I just cleaned my calendar for this...

[SimpleSexy180]

i would punch mars if it came near me.

[Tenchuu]

i would punch mars if it came near me.


best quote ever.

Frenzy13 nothing against you, it's just that when you get enuff e-mails like thiat they tend to get annoying. most of the time if it sounds unbeliviable it is. i just figured that mars is a smaller planet than earth as demonstrated by Phillip here http://www.zilvia.net/f/showthread.php?t=112458

so for it to be as big as the moon to the naked eye, that would cause some sort of disturbance that would be nationl news, cause the moon causes tides with it's pull,so even thought it was farther away, it is alot bigger therefore haveing more gravitational pull. it think it the moon and any other planet were the same size in our sky we would be in deep trouble.

[theicecreamdan]

You do realize you just owned yourself with that link, correct? It states right there on the NASA webpage, that this was valid in 2003, which makes it a HOAX in 2006. :bow:

and if its a hoax last year you KNOW its still a hoax in 2006

so for it to be as big as the moon to the naked eye, that would cause some sort of disturbance that would be nationl news, cause the moon causes tides with it's pull,so even thought it was farther away, it is alot bigger therefore haveing more gravitational pull. it think it the moon and any other planet were the same size in our sky we would be in deep trouble.

that's talking about at a 75x magnification, which isn't very extreme.

[Frenzy13]

best quote ever.

Frenzy13 nothing against you, it's just that when you get enuff e-mails like thiat they tend to get annoying. most of the time if it sounds unbeliviable it is. i just figured that mars is a smaller planet than earth as demonstrated by Phillip here http://www.zilvia.net/f/showthread.php?t=112458

so for it to be as big as the moon to the naked eye, that would cause some sort of disturbance that would be nationl news, cause the moon causes tides with it's pull,so even thought it was farther away, it is alot bigger therefore haveing more gravitational pull. it think it the moon and any other planet were the same size in our sky we would be in deep trouble.

I don't really take any offense or anything so to me it's not a big deal, I screwed up on something and don't have a problem admitting it.

My mom tends not to forward me crap mail, and she tends to keep up to date with the whole news thing, more than I do, and had read or seen something about it in the news. Figured there was some truth to it so I thought I'd share it. Whoever had put in the email spaced it out wrong and was supposed to read that under a telescope at 75 power it would be as big as the moon to the naked eye. Nevertheless I was wrong and pwned myself as displayed earlier.

PS Any mod can delete or lock this thread at this point. And sorry for the mishap.

[kouki_s14]

OLDDDD, this email has been around for yearrrrrrrrrrsssssssss

[SochBAT]

Sad. I was up at AzusaCanyons in 03 lookin at this. I was hoping it'd come again. Gives a good reason to bring a date up there and be genuinely nice. =]

[SimpleSexy180]

^ and beat dem cheeks.

[SochBAT]

^^^ Don' talk about your ex that way.

She's very nice. and flexible.

[Edgar]

i dont know about you guys but ill still be around then

me and my robots

[BRB26]

im a vampire. ill be around.
when everyone dies, we should have an all out battle between your robots and my crew of lackey vampires.

[blu808]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1565042816.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

[P4rD0nM3]

Oh shit. I missed it? I was probably browsing Zilvia and couldn't care less where the hell mars is. I fail I guess.

[JVD]

Yeah, fuck! I was really looking forward to that for like a minute until I read all of the posts. Oh well. I guess I'll just wait for the next one. Wait a second...