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On Aug 24, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Dilip Deka wrote:
> O'Mahanta,
> Thanks for checking. It appears to be a hoax.Mars apparently appears bigger
> at times but not to the Moon's size.
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> 2 moons on august 27th, 2010?
> i got an e-mail and it said mars will be close and appear as close at the
> moon, is this true?
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> Mars DID make a close approach to Earth in August, but it was back in August
> of 2003. And when it did make that close approach, Mars appeared nowhere near
> the size of the moon. Mars' angular diameter on that day was still about
> 1/75th the angular diameter of the moon. This email keeps getting spread
> around every summer, and even for the year 2003, it was only half-true.
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> No. This is a hoax email which was wrong when it first appeared in August
> 2003, and gets more wrong each year when it resurfaces. Mars is really far
> from Earth, and can never appear as large as the Moon. On August 27 2010 Mars
> will be about as far from Earth as it is possible to get, and will be an
> insignificant red dot in our western sky just after sunset. Please send an
> email back to whoever sent you this and tell them to stop spreading false
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> No. First of all, this e-mail started a few years ago when Mars was at its
> closest, but that still puts it much farther away from us than the moon. At
> its closest, Mars is 35 million miles away; the moon is under 250,000 miles
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> There is no way Mars would ever appear to be as large as the moon, as cool as
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> FALSE, this is called, "The Mars Hoax". It started in 2003 when Mars made
> it's last closest approach to Earth. IN A TELESCOPE, Mars will appear about
> the same size as the full moon. The hoaxers left off the words "IN A
> TELESCOPE" and the rest is history. We get this hoax every year during July
> and August.
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> If you mean seeing Mars as an actual "disk" in the sky, no, that is not true.
> Gravity would pull Earth and Mars together if they were that close. Plus,
> it's also physically impossible for Mars to move into our orbit.
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> If you say you got a e-mail that said XYZ, who am I to disagree? You probably
> actually did get an e-mail like that.
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> This fake e-mail about Mars and the Moon has been going around for years and
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> You realize that if Mars was ever as close to the Earth as the moon, it would
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> Mars is too far away to resemble the moon. It'll always appear as a star to
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> This has been said by stupid people more times than I care to remember ..
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> it never happened and no, it won't happen .. Mars Doesn't get this close
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> Noooo! Not again.
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> it's a hoax email...sorry
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> No it's nonsense I've had that email, If Mars appeared that big it would be
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> No, it's not true. You have got a spam email.
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> --- On Mon, 8/23/10, Chan Mahanta <[email protected]> wrote:
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> From: Chan Mahanta <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Assam] Fw: Two Moons on 27th August 2010
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> Date: Monday, August 23, 2010, 9:47 PM
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> O'Deka:
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> Aapuni kintu eibaar 'hoax--ot porile'. This apparently is another 'urban
> legend'.
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> As you and others know, I am no astronomer, not even an astrologer. But the
> claim sounded a little far-fetched, that Mars will look like the moon. So I
> Googled " two moons". And guess what I found:
> http://hubpages.com/hub/Two_Moons_On_August_27_-_The_Latest_Old_Hoax
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> On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:11 PM, Dilip Deka wrote:
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>> Just wanted to share with you all.
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>> ----- Forwarded Message ----
>> From: Dipendra Goswami [email protected]
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>> ________________________________
>> Subject: Two Moons on 27th August 2010
>>>
>>>
>>> Two moons on 27th August2010
>>>
>>> 27th Aug the Whole World is 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. (EDT) 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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