Is planet mars is coming some miles near the earth on 27th august,like two moons?
You have either been sent or been told about the contents of a hoax-email purporting that Mars will look as big as and as bright as the Moon. Worryingly, four of the contributors above seem to believe what it says and swallowed it whole. These hoax e-mails circulate every summer. Loads of people must get them because Yahoo! Answers gets loads of questions on this subject. Mars WILL look about the same size and brightness as another celestial body on 27th August, But that body is NOT the Moon, but ALDEBARAN, the bright red giant that is the eye of the bull and the brightest star in Taurus and Mars will be very close to Aldebaran in the sky too. Mars will be about +0.7 magnitude and Aldebaran is +0.85 magnitude. You can see where the Moon is yourself, and it is nowhere near Mars and Aldebaran. So Mars will not be appearing “side by side” with the Moon. Indeed the Moon has got a Lunar eclipse booked in its diary for August 28th and it is rather curious that the hoaxsters, who claim to kno
