* Astronomy

Mars Email a "Spectacular" Hoax
An email promising a "Mars spectacular" on August 27 has astronomers seeing red, as scientists try to counter a seemingly unending Mars hoax.
The anonymous message from an unknown part of the globe says that the red planet " ... will look as large as the full moon" in the night sky, and that "no one alive today will ever see this again."

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The planet Mars will be within 34,649,589 miles of the Earth and will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky.
This will not happen again for 60,000 years and has not been seen in recorded history.
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Mars   
Magnitude= 1.0mag  
Best seen from  0.4h - 5.5h   (in constellation Gemini)
RA= 6h02m55s  Dec=+23°32.5' (J2000)
Distance=1.632AU  Elongation= 63°   Phase k=89%  Diameter=5.7"