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Yeah, I have had a number of people ask me about it, and send me emails etc because they know I am interested in astronomy. I wonder if what has happened is that someone has read an old article about the 2003 close encounter, and they have assumed it was for this year, and, like chinese whispers, the idea has been passed on ad nauseum.
This year we will have the closest contact with Mars on 30 October, will be nowhere near as good as 2003, a bit better though for the Northern hemisphere.
I saw Mars rising last night above the trees at about midnight last night with some of the guys at Kulnura. It is such a lovely orange naked eye object when you put aside the equipment and just enjoy its brightness in the sky at the moment.
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