A Freaky Occurance this Month...another Milestone in Science

[forluvofsmoke]

I opened this email today from a relative...check this out:

Mark your calendar...August 27th for this rare occurrence.



 For those who have children, show them for they will never see this again.

 An interesting fact about AUGUST 2010

 This AUGUST has

 5 SUNDAYS

 5 MONDAYS and

 5 TUESDAYS ALL IN ONE MONTH.

 IT HAPPENS ONCE IN 823 YEARS.

 Two moons on 27th August 2010

 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 culminate 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.

 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.

 

[pandemonium]

snopes says this isnt true but i hope it is i also got this email awhile back and a friend told me snopes said it was bogus?

 

[forluvofsmoke]

snopes says this isnt true but i hope it is i also got this email awhile back and a friend told me snopes said it was bogus?

Yea, I don't know about snopes' reputation anymore, though...lots of controversy and negative publicity.

Eric

 

[chefrob]

i guess we will find out in a couple of days...........

 

[meateater]

Yup. 5 Mon,Tues and Wed.

 

[pandemonium]

You would think our great news media would tell us about such a rare event? but their too busy spreading fear and doom I guess?

 

[rowdyrawhide]

You would think our great news media would tell us about such a rare event? but their too busy spreading fear and doom I guess?

I don't know about fear and doom but more like useless bull$#it, most of the time.

 

[marty catka]

NASA says it's a hoax that Mars will be that close.  However, according to Spaceweather.com:

   Tonight, at the stroke of midnight, go outside an look southeast. The nearly full Moon and Jupiter are having a lovely close encounter. The two brightest objects in the night sky are only only 6[sup]o[/sup] apart!

The confluence of 5 Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays in one month is interesting though. 

 

[Bearcarver]

"Truth or Fiction" says this story was true in 2003, but has circulated every year since:

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/m/mars.htm

Bear

 

[rowdyrawhide]

NASA says it's a hoax that Mars will be that close.  However, according to Spaceweather.com:

   Tonight, at the stroke of midnight, go outside an look southeast. The nearly full Moon and Jupiter are having a lovely close encounter. The two brightest objects in the night sky are only only 6[sup]o[/sup] apart!

The confluence of 5 Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays in one month is interesting though. 

FWIW this happens again in May of 2011
 

 

[chefrob]

i predict tonight at precisely 10:47 pm if my neighbor looks out his north facing window he will see a full moon!

 

[Bearcarver]

i predict tonight at precisely 10:47 pm if my neighbor looks out his north facing window he will see a full moon!

Hmmm, So now you're "mooning" your neighbor to the South???

 

[chefrob]

i said nothing of the sort...............

 

[mballi3011]

Hey Bear I heard of such a feNOMnomaNation thingy thats gonna happen too. Robs neighbor won't see the full moon he gonna have some binocular and see a whole lot more then the moon.         LOL 

Heck maybe the moons moons too.