Just heard that Mars will be closest to Moon on Aug 27th? Any info please?

Question

Just heard that Mars will be closest to Moon on Aug 27th? Any info please?

Answer 1

You are the victim of a hoax email. Mars will be nowhere close to the Moon on August 27; in fact it will be on the far side of the Sun.

Answer 2

You should do more reading of real information and less reliance on what some buddy told you, before coming to a forum like this and making an a-- of yourself.

Answer 3

August 27th, 2003, Mars was the closest to the Earth that it had gotten in a long time.  One of the things said about it was that it would look as big in a telescope at 100x as the Moon (without a telescope).  This is useful, because you can look up at the Moon and see detail, naked eye.

But every year, the email gets changed a little more.

The next Mars opposition is January, 2010.

Mars is currently farther from the Earth than the Sun.

Answer 4

Whenever I see "27th August" and "Mars" I realise that this is another question resulting from the hoax e-mail which goes out every August. The e-mail actually says that Mars will appear as large as the Moon, which is complete nonsense. Your version seems to have got somewhat garbled. Read more about it here: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/hsblog/2007/0...

Answer 5

Hey Nick, take a chill pill.

The man has a right to ask a question and earn some points.

Answer 6

The stories you have heard, and the e-mails you may have received are garbage.  The distance between Mars and the Moon is exactly the same as that between the Earth and Mars

Answer 7

Check out this link for the real answer:

http://www.snopes.com/science/mars.asp