Tonight's the Night Mars Will Not Look as Big as the Full Moon
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I wasn't going to write an article about the Mars-Moon Hoax this year because I thought it was too passé, but I just looked at some stats and saw that our article on the topic from 2007, "Will Mars Look as Big as the Full Moon On August 27? Nope" has gotten over 50,000 hits the past few days, so obviously people are Googling the topic, wondering if Mars will look as big as the full Moon tonight. Short answer: No. If you looked at the night sky last night, Mars was not as big as the full Moon then, and it won't be that big tonight. Moreover, it won't be that big, ever. Mars is just barely visible right now in August 2010, as a faint object low in the west after sunset. Take a look at the sky chart above from EarthSky.org which shows you where it is. And you can read more about Mars in 2010 at the EarthSky.org website, which is a great resource for all sorts of science topics and is written by some of the world's top scientists.
Every year, Universe Today has been dubunking the erroneous email that has been going around since 2003. Here's are a few: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, and 2005. If you don't believe Fraser, Phil Plait the Bad Astronomer debunks the email here, here , here, and here's the original one back in 2003.
http://www.universetoday.com/72216/tonights-the-night-mars-will-not-look-as-big-...
Every year, Universe Today has been dubunking the erroneous email that has been going around since 2003. Here's are a few: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, and 2005. If you don't believe Fraser, Phil Plait the Bad Astronomer debunks the email here, here , here, and here's the original one back in 2003.
http://www.universetoday.com/72216/tonights-the-night-mars-will-not-look-as-big-...
