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Monday, 21 August 2006

No, Mars will not look as big as the moon next week

Sorry kids. If you got an email about this hopefully you looked it up to see how much of it was true. None of it is. Several years ago Mars was closer than usual but this summer, nothing special, and it was never 34 miles away from Earth.

As hopefully most readers will realize, if Mars was 34 miles from Earth it would be a major catastrophe, causing crazy tides and bizarre gravitational things to say the least. Also, it would look much larger than the moon in that case, since it IS larger than the moon and since the moon is over 200,000 miles away.

Props to Brian for finding a decent article about it when I was too lazy and found one that was mostly wrong but a little more right than the email I got.

Posted: Aug 21, 2006 16:29

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