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07-05-2009, 06:29 AM
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Sir Post a Lot!
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Gosford, NSW, Australia
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Mars will NOT be as Big as the Full Moon on August 27th!
It's that time of year again, when the emails and powerpoint presentations start going around about Mars being as big or as bright as the Full Moon on August 27th. I've received several emails from people asking about it in the last couple of weeks.
It's a hoax and email spam. You can safely ignore and delete it, and don't propogate it by forwarding it onto people 
Read more at the following article:
Mars will NOT be as Big as the Full Moon on August 27th!
Thanks
Last edited by iceman; 07-05-2009 at 07:16 AM.
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07-05-2009, 07:22 AM
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Yes I too have had to explain this to some people again.
Atleast it gets some of the non-astro peoples attention.
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07-05-2009, 07:26 AM
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Sir Post a Lot!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lester
Atleast it gets some of the non-astro peoples attention.
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True, it's good if it gets them thinking about astronomy. The problem is, when they go outside on August 27th expecting to see something brilliant - they'll be bitterly disappointed
Last year I had someone ring me ON that night, wondering where to look
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07-05-2009, 07:32 AM
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ze frogginator
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Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
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 Won't it? Bummer! Here goes all my chances of taking a decent picture of it. 
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07-05-2009, 07:35 AM
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Let there be night...
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Location: Hobart, TAS
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I even had one idiot I know state that if Mars isn't as big as "promised" on the day that " it would serve to discredit science and scientific method". 
You have to laugh, don't you? I would, wholeheartedly, if these people weren't serious. Sad.
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07-05-2009, 07:36 AM
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Moderator
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LOL Mike I have had 8 emails, many of the people i replied to we very much novices..... some blonde
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07-05-2009, 07:37 AM
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Spam Hunter
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This one's going around again, eh?
Al.
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07-05-2009, 07:47 AM
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Location: Monto
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Sigh......
How many people get sucked into this EVERY year?
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07-05-2009, 08:09 AM
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Teknition
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brisbane Australia
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Hey Mike and others, 
This is unbelievable. I thought it would be well and truly put to rest by now. 
How utterly gullible some people can be. 
Cheers Marty
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07-05-2009, 08:42 AM
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again? Struth, some people are gullible. I have already fended of 2 people I know.
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07-05-2009, 08:50 AM
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Chronic aperture fever
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Location: Sydney
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I seriously can't believe that people fall for this kind of stuff. Sad.
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07-05-2009, 09:05 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Lennox Head, NSW, Australia
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But take care....
For personal safety...I would advise not tackling this in a crowded hotel bar (no it didn;t happen to me), or with any friend who has um..indulged.. it's amazing how strong belief systems become with some lubrication....
We will need our eyes (not blackened) to see the night sky!
As for me, I was starting to build a space bridge in the backyard....
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07-05-2009, 09:28 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Beaudesert, Qld. AUSTRALIA
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Not again!
For the past 6 years a lot of my friends, knowing my interest in astronomy, keep emailing me about this 'amazing' non event. Even though every year I inform them that they are being had, they will not believe me. It apears that you just can not tell some people sometimes.
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07-05-2009, 09:41 AM
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Occultation Observer
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Location: Blue Mountains, Australia
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Oh no, not again.
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Curiously the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias, as it fell, was, ‘Oh no, not again.’ Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
end quote
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07-05-2009, 10:16 AM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Brisbane
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Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Mars will NOT be as Big as the Full Moon on August 27th!
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That's funny, I've always thought that Mars was about twice as big as the moon!
Mars is 3,376km radius versus moon's 1,737km after all.
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07-05-2009, 01:39 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Mitcham, Melbourne
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Hi Mike and others.
OK I know it's crap but theoretically what would be the implications scientifically for earth? Would we in fact be alive to view it anyway. I'm thinking king king tides, tsunamis, Earth or Mars or Moon or all ripped apart.
Just curious so's we can hit the ignorant masses with some science!! 
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07-05-2009, 02:15 PM
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This scenario is possible but not from the Earth. Mars is roughly twice the diameter of the Moon. Any point in space twice as far from Mars as from the Moon will present roughly equal disks. Matching their brightness would be a tough call.
Rob.
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07-05-2009, 02:51 PM
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AstroNan
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Location: Newcastle
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Quote:
Originally Posted by h0ughy
LOL Mike I have had 8 emails, many of the people i replied to we very much novices..... some blonde
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Maybe they are confusing it with the 'ring nebula' that you showed us at
the shopping centre David 
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07-05-2009, 04:16 PM
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Support your local RFS
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Location: Wamboin NSW
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In the immortal words of Douglas Adams.
"Oh no, not again"
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07-05-2009, 04:35 PM
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Dr Who Nut
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Perth
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I was disappointed it wasn't true. I was looking forward to a whole new range of eclipses. Something about this thread has me singing Pink Floyd....
"The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path"
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