I have received a few emails again this year, as I do every year, asking me about the Mars encounter. Check it out below.
Don't feel bad if you have already passed it on. To be sucked in by this email I suppose is forgivable....ONCE. Not everyone is an astro-geek like me.
This phenomenon is toatally UNTRUE and if anyone wants to ask me about it, I am happy to answer questions.
Can you imagine?......
If Mars was close enough to look as big as our moon to the naked eye, some catastrophic event would have had to have knocked Mars off its orbital path and sent it careening for Earth. Having another large gravitational mass such as Mars in close proximity to us, would wreck havoc with our atmosphere, weather, tides, magnetosphere etc. It would also affect our orbit around the Sun, which as you can probably imagine, is kind of JUST RIGHT where it is. We would have earthquakes, volcanoes, tidal waves, massive storms, possibly ice ages and maybe even cats and dogs living together in harmony. You know....MASS DESTRUCTION on a GLOBAL scale.
If you get the Mars email...ignore it.
By the way, the photograph used in the email below is not Mars, it is a moon of Saturn and those are the rings below as viewed from edge-on. Who-ever wrote it couldn't even tell the difference from a small rocky red planet half the size of Earth, to a whopping Gas Giant hundreds of times bigger than Earth with thousands of kilometers of ice rings around it. Looking at the pic, it might even be doctored as well...funny how the two moons seem to have a dent in the same place...I'll have to look into that one...
All vented now......
Baz.
Two moons on 27th August
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 thenaked eye. This willcultivate 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.
I will have to mark the date on my calander, wouldn't want to miss a once in a life time view.
I remember the first time I got that email last year everyone was talking about it and I tried telling them it was all a load of bulls**t, no one believed me though. They couldn't even paste a decent picture on the email.
The last time I got one of these was just before the total lunar eclipse last year.
And you know what, at totality the Moon really truly did look like Mars.
i havnt got the email this year yet but all my friends are coming up to me and saying hey Jen how come you didnt tell us this one was coming up hahaha :screwy : not again
Bloody hell, more explaining to do, to the people that ask me, "Have you seen what is happening with Mars this month".
Leon
Still getting this email - I am sick of people who just forward junk emails on to you, you tube clips, jokes. I am really getting tired of it.
I think I'm going to send out my own global email stating
"please do not email me unless you actually want to communicate intelligent and relevant dialogue with me. Do not spend junk or chain emails, jokes, video clips, funny photos or anything else of a 'spam' nature."
And here I was thinking that I hadn't seen it this year yet and maybe it had been laid to rest...
We are all doomed. Yes I had the email deleted it right away..
