[Assam] Fw: Two Moons on 27th August 2010

Tue Aug 24 20:57:42 IST 2010

O'Mahanta,
Thanks for checking. It appears to be a hoax.Mars apparently appears bigger at times but not to the Moon's size.
O'Deka

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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 information.
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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 away. 
There is no way Mars would ever appear to be as large as the moon, as cool as this would be.

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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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http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/sci…

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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.

This fake e-mail about Mars and the Moon has been going around for years and years.

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You realize that if Mars was ever as close to the Earth as the moon, it would mess up the earth.

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Mars is too far away to resemble the moon. It'll always appear as a star to the naked eye on Earth.

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This has been said by stupid people more times than I care to remember ..

it never happened and no, it won't happen .. Mars Doesn't get this close

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Noooo! Not again. 
http://www.snopes.com/science/astronomy/…

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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 time to run.

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No, it's not true. You have got a spam email.

--- On Mon, 8/23/10, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Assam] Fw: Two Moons on 27th August 2010
To: "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world" <assam at assamnet.org>
Date: Monday, August 23, 2010, 9:47 PM

O'Deka:

Aapuni kintu eibaar 'hoax--ot porile'.  This apparently is another 'urban legend'.

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

O'm

On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:11 PM, Dilip Deka wrote:

> Just wanted to share with you all.
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> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: Dipendra Goswami goswami2005 at msn.com
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> Subject: Two Moons on 27th August 2010
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>> Two moons on 27th August2010
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>> 27th Aug the Whole World is waiting for............. 
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>>>> 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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