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Post subject: ONCE IN A LIFETIME!
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My 30th birthday is 28th August - what a present!!
The following is taken from a slide-show, if you want this please PM me with your email address. The slide-show runs in .pps format. It has some nice music and images in it.
This month and next, Earth will catch up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history.
Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and disturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the Last 5,000 years. But it may be as long as 60,000 years before it happens again.
The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth.
It will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky.
It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest 75-power magnification.
To the naked eye Mars will look as large as the full moon!
Mars will be easy to spot. It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye.
And by the beginning of August it will rise in the east at 10 p.m. and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m.
By the end of August when the two planets are closest, Mars will rise at nightfall and reach its highest point in the sky at 12:30a.m.
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Post subject: Re: ONCE IN A LIFETIME!
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| Bebi wrote: | My 30th birthday is 28th August - what a present!!
The following is taken from a slide-show, if you want this please PM me with your email address. The slide-show runs in .pps format. It has some nice music and images in it.
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You already have my address so send it.
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| Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:18 am |
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I've just been informed this is a hoax 
<< feels such an idiot now LOL
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| Sun Aug 13, 2006 1:04 pm |
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Send it anyway.
I didn't want to be the one to tell you. 
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| Sun Aug 13, 2006 3:10 pm |
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