GL: Mars

[Bill Donovan]

I hate to rain on anybody's parade, but we missed this event by four 
years, according to Snopes.com:  http://www.snopes.com/science/mars.asp

Bill


At 11:22 AM 8/13/2007...snip...

>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 culminate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes
>        within 34.65M miles of 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.
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