Science/ 2 moons this month Aug 27

passionflower said:

Two moons on 27th August 2010
27th Aug the Whole World will be 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 off earth.
Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am.
It will look like the earth has 2 moons.

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daisy7 said:

I kept getting e-mails about this and was looking forward to it -- cuz it would be SO cool! Unfortunately, Snopes said it's not true

http://www.snopes.com/science/astronomy/brightmars.asp

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angela said:

Well, that's a bummer.

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Linda7NJ said:

That's my Birthday!!!!!!!!! How cool!

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