Dear
Chandanda and Dilipda,
Let me confess that I was also fool to believe this hoax and Made a
pre-incident report on Panorama column of last Pragyan. The pictures those
I've seen on net appeared me as doctored . But I thought how can one upload
original picture of an event which has not taken place yet. I asked my
colleagues from physics department if it's true . They didn't denied the
possibilities , but suggested me to check NASS website. I didn't found
anything there either. But, then even I thought NASA might have taking time
to comment on it. I thought there are so many references on net about this,
how come it would be faults.
Now, after not seeing anything like that on sky and getting your mail , I'm
feeling guilty for making such blunder.
Sushanta
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Chan Mahanta <cmaha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *** Don't mention it! We are living in a sea of information over-load, not
> all of
> which are reliable. More than ever it is imperative that we remain
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> On Aug 24, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Dilip Deka wrote:
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> > O'Mahanta,
> > Thanks for checking. It appears to be a hoax.Mars apparently appears
> bigger at times but not to the Moon's size.
> > O'Deka
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> > 2 moons on august 27th, 2010?
> > i got an e-mail and it said mars will be close and appear as close at the
> moon, is this true?
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> > Mars DID make a close approach to Earth in August, but it was back in
> August of 2003. And when it did make that close approach, Mars appeared
> nowhere near the size of the moon. Mars' angular diameter on that day was
> still about 1/75th the angular diameter of the moon. This email keeps
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> > No. This is a hoax email which was wrong when it first appeared in August
> 2003, and gets more wrong each year when it resurfaces. Mars is really far
> from Earth, and can never appear as large as the Moon. On August 27 2010
> Mars will be about as far from Earth as it is possible to get, and will be
> an insignificant red dot in our western sky just after sunset. Please send
> an email back to whoever sent you this and tell them to stop spreading false
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> > No. First of all, this e-mail started a few years ago when Mars was at
> its closest, but that still puts it much farther away from us than the moon.
> At its closest, Mars is 35 million miles away; the moon is under 250,000
> miles away.
> > There is no way Mars would ever appear to be as large as the moon, as
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> > FALSE, this is called, "The Mars Hoax". It started in 2003 when Mars made
> it's last closest approach to Earth. IN A TELESCOPE, Mars will appear about
> the same size as the full moon. The hoaxers left off the words "IN A
> TELESCOPE" and the rest is history. We get this hoax every year during July
> and August.
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> > If you mean seeing Mars as an actual "disk" in the sky, no, that is not
> true. Gravity would pull Earth and Mars together if they were that close.
> Plus, it's also physically impossible for Mars to move into our orbit.
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> > If you say you got a e-mail that said XYZ, who am I to disagree? You
> probably actually did get an e-mail like that.
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> > This fake e-mail about Mars and the Moon has been going around for years
> and years.
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> > You realize that if Mars was ever as close to the Earth as the moon, it
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> > Mars is too far away to resemble the moon. It'll always appear as a star
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> > This has been said by stupid people more times than I care to remember ..
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> > it never happened and no, it won't happen .. Mars Doesn't get this close
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> > it's a hoax email...sorry
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> > No it's nonsense I've had that email, If Mars appeared that big it would
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> > No, it's not true. You have got a spam email.
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> >
> > --- On Mon, 8/23/10, Chan Mahanta <cmaha...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> > From: Chan Mahanta <cmaha...@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Assam] Fw: Two Moons on 27th August 2010
> > To: "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world"
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> > Date: Monday, August 23, 2010, 9:47 PM
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> > O'Deka:
> >
> > Aapuni kintu eibaar 'hoax--ot porile'. This apparently is another 'urban
> legend'.
> >
> > As you and others know, I am no astronomer, not even an astrologer. But
> the claim sounded a little far-fetched, that Mars will look like the moon.
> So I Googled " two moons". And guess what I found:
> http://hubpages.com/hub/Two_Moons_On_August_27_-_The_Latest_Old_Hoax
> >
> > O'm
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> > On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:11 PM, Dilip Deka wrote:
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> >> Just wanted to share with you all.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> >> From: Dipendra Goswami goswami2...@msn.com
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> Subject: Two Moons on 27th August 2010
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Two moons on 27th August2010
> >>>
> >>> 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. (EDT) 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.
> >>>>>
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