Thread: Mars Closest to Earth??? Weird Email---Please Look
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Old 17-June-2005, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Moose
> Mars will look as large as the full moon to the
> naked eye.

I just wanted to mention that this part is patently wrong. Not even at the optimal moment did Mars look like anything other than a point of light to an unaided observer.
I also fell for this uin the beginning. But the whole quote is

> the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9
> and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest
> 75-power magnification
>
>
> Mars will look as large as the full moon to the
> naked eye.

and that's okay. Those blank lines are misleading.

Harald
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