[vox] [fwd] [OT] Snuggling Up to Mars

[Lincoln Peters]

Somewhat more on-topic:

If you're not sure where to look for Mars in the night sky, you can find out 
using KStars.  You can tell it your location, which celestial body to focus 
on, etc., and then you've got a much better idea of where it is.

In the case of Mars, right now in Santa Rosa, it is a bright object to the 
right of the moon.  And the moon is easy enough to spot.




Lincoln




>From: Bill Kendrick <nbs@sonic.net>
>Reply-To: vox@lists.lugod.org
>To: vox@lists.lugod.org
>Subject: [vox] [fwd] [OT] Snuggling Up to Mars
>Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 06:27:28 -0700
>
>
>In case you've been hiding in a cave for the past 60,000 years. ;)
>
>-bill!
>
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>
>Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:24:13 -0000
>From: "maws_general_list"
>Subject: [MAWS General List] Snuggling Up to Mars
>
>"Mars, Earth to soon move closest in past 60,000 years"
>(Source: Wire reports, 8/13/03)
>
>LOS ANGELES - The wandering of the planets brings Mars closer to Earth
>this month than at any time in nearly 60,000 years. It will be a
>last-chance proposition for all alive today: Mars won't be as close
>again until Aug. 28, 2287.
>
>About 34.6 million miles will separate the two planets Aug. 27. If
>that doesn't sound close, Mars was five times as distant six months
>ago. Mars has begun to loom large in the late evening sky in the
>southeast. For several weeks, it should shine brighter than any other
>celestial body - save the moon and Venus.
>
>Aldo Vitagliano of the University of Naples in Italy calculated that
>Mars hasn't had as close a brush with Earth since Sept. 12, 57617
>B.C., when Neanderthals ruled but modern man had begun to make
>inroads.
>
>
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