[B] Mars was supposed to be the size of and as bright as the moon on the 27th august. Then when that time came around I read that it was just a recirculated hoax from 2003. THEN I read that its going to actually happen in october 2005. Someone help me. Lol. I didnt really believe in it all that much, but it sure would be great to actually witness that event. So if anyone has any true info on this out there, let me know and reply.

Try to avoid the cook sites for real information,sure they can be good for laughs,but there are some realy good astronomy sites out there too.

If mars was the same size as the moon, well lets just say earth would be screwed he he he. the water would flood.

~Thanato

The email that many people saw describing this event was recycled from two years ago and suffered from bad spacing. It said


These are from the same sentence and when taken in context, would be true. If magnified by 75 times at its closest approach, Mars would appear that large. However the spacing was done badly in the email (and probably deliberately) so many people have assumed that Mars will look as big as the moon without magnification.

Mars will be close again in October this year. Not quite as close as two years ago but it won't look much different in October than it did two years ago to the naked eye. It will still be many millions of miles away and always will be.

Reference the Snopes page on this email
http://www.snopes.com/science/mars.asp

Weren't you just talking about MARS? Why the sudden change of topic?

Oops! Thanks for the heads up. I've fixed it now.