Is this scientific even true?

Question

27th Aug the Whole World is waiting for.............

Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August. It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will cultivate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles off earth. Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am. It will look like the earth has 2 moons.

The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.

Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again.

Answer 1

No, Mars will be brighter, but not bigger than usual.

Answer 2

No one alive today or at any other time will ever see it, period. For some reason, this myth has been crawling out of the woodwork every year for the last five or so. It's flat-out impossible for Mars to ever get that close.

Answer 3

Nope;  Not true....  Mars would have to be not even twice as far as the moon to Earth for us to see it that large - and that won't ever happen.

Answer 4

Not true. Mars is currently not far from being on the far side of the Sun. This comes from a hoax e-mail which circulates every year at this time. For more information: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/hsblog/2007/0...

Answer 5

This nonsense ranks right up there with manned lunar landing hoax and 2012 doomsday prediction.

Answer 6

This is three times in one hour for this silly hoax.  Go outside tonight and look at Mars.  It will appear as a red star.  Go out tomorrow night: it will look the same.  It will look the same on the 26th.  Why? If it is going to appear as close as the moon it should be getting steadily larger.  It isn't.   People would notice.  The papers would be filled with stories about this.  They aren't.  Quit falling for foolish hoaxes.  

Answer 7

false.

This is how it started:

In 2003, Mars was closest to Earth (in opposition), as it is every 780 days. In 2003, it was to be the closest to us that it had ever been in thousands of years.

Someone had written that IF you look through a telescope with a magnification of 75x, THEN Mars would look as big as the Moon looks when you see it naked eye.

Some journalist forgot the reference to the telescope and simply printed that Mars would be as big as the Moon.

Hoaxers jumped on the occasion to predict all kinds of stuff (there was even a book announcing that Nibiru -- the fictitious planet -- would use the opportunity to destroy us -- or some such rot).

Since then, every year (except last year, because there was an eclipse of the Moon on that date), the hoax is repeated.

The last opposition was in late December 2007 and the next one will be in January 2010 (this is a rare interval where there are no oppositions in two consecutive calendar years).

In August, the apparent diameter of Mars will be 4" (4 seconds). Even with a 75x telescope, it will be difficult to even see it as a disk.

by comparison, the Moon has an apparent diameter of over 1800" (half a degree -- there are 60 minutes in a degree and 60 seconds in a minute).

So, this year in August, Mars will appear 450 times smaller than the Moon (which is about normal for Mars -- being so far away).

Answer 8

It ain't scientific and it ain't true.  Mars will remain a reddish dot in the sky on 27 August, just as it always has and always will.

This silly story was doing the rounds a year ago.