I heard on TV there would be a view of like two moons this month and it only happens every 2000 years can you tell me when it is this month and what its called

Uhhhh... Like, can you, like be more, like, specific?

Like two EARTH Moons?
Like I'm confused...

The moon did like a cell and divided or what?

Or like moons from, like, another planet?

With a good telescope I can see a lot more than two moons.

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First, welcome to BAUT. Second, I suspect you are referring to an e-mail that states that Mars will look as big as the moon. The e-mail was incorrect when it first made the rounds back in 2003 and it is very wrong now. You can read more about it here.

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like a planet close to us or the moon that appears to be a view of two moons with the naked eye

Ok.
Follow Swifts lead there.
His Link.

Thats false, the sky is going to look excitingly normal

I heard this on TV about two weeks ago on the news

You can always google that news station and find their website.

Then try to find that story.

But as above, there is nothing going on that is going to have a moon and a planet as bright as the moon in the sky.

As of right now, You can look at the moon tonight and see Venus. And most nights and mornings you can see Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and, depending on where you live(Smog and city lights) even Uranus ( no snickering, please).
They are not big and bright like the moon. But all the same- you can see other planets with the naked eye pretty regularly.

The only other thing I can think of is that there is lunar eclipse this month on the 28th - more details here, but it wouldn't look like two moons.

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Could it be that when we see our Moon twice in a given month, the second time we see it we call it a "blue Moon"?

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its suppose to be an event that happens every 2000 some odd years and looks like two moons=does anyone know what event happens in this time period or mabe l should ask whats his name jack hornaker or what ever his name is that comes on TV and says keep looking up

Well, what station were you watching? "TV" is an increasingly large location these days. What day, what time, what program? And what's your location?

Nothing with a 2000-year cycle comes to mind.

Fred

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l dont know what station it was just heard it and thought it would be something to see or have a two moon ceremony gathering to view it especially when it happens so rarely=does anyone know the astronomer l mentioned jack horniker or something like that,he is on TV or anyone that might have knowledge of this event

But what part of the planet are you on - we have members from around the globe? Was it in the US and if so, what city? Was it a news show or something else?

Like I already said crosseagle, what you literally describe is not possible and is not happening this month. It is possible it is exactly what you heard on TV, we don't doubt you, but TV gets things wrong too. I mentioned my idea - the Mars e-mail. I recently got an e-mail newsletter that repeated this incorrect information, so it is possible a TV station picked it up.

Crosseagle - did you read the link (to the BA's blog) that I had in my first post? Does that sound like what you heard?

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Whatever you heard, this isn't physically possible as others here have pointed out. We have one big moon, and there isn't going to be a planet or anything else that will look like a second moon. Sorry.

Like Swift, the first thing that I suspected was another retelling of the nonsense about Mars, which is a story that has going around for a few years now. We're asking questions because we would like to determine if what you heard was that incorrect Mars story, but the bottom line is: No double moon.

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I'm certain he would tell you what others here are trying to get across: what you heard is a false misreading of an event, originally described when it happened, 4 years ago, 2003: the closest approach of Mars to Earth in a long, long time.

Mars didn't then look as big as the moon, and it won't this 4 years later, either, or ever. It's always too far away.

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Two moons in a month can mean two 'new moons' in a month, and for it to be a very rare event, that would have to be the month of February.

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I'm in the US,Florida=l mentioned it to someone else that had heard it and he said the 28th but l think he heard of the eclipse=hard telling which news media l heard it on , l have a remote,ha ha but l listen to fox mostly but l really appreciate you all trying to help

His current show is "... The Last of the Dual Eclipses" regarding the two Moons this year that are eclipses.

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WELL I JUST GOT MYSELF UP AT THREE AND IT LOOKS LIKE TWO MOONS TO ME UP THERE IN THE NIGHT SKY!! I EVEN GOT MY HUSBAND OUT OF BED TO SEE AND HE SAID 'i wonder why there are two moons up there?"
Is that Mars in front of the Moon?
CHECK THE SKY OUT NOW FOR ANY NIGHT OWLS UP RIGHT NOW!!!

Two full moons in a month is called a blue moon. However it happens a lot more often than every 2000 years. The average time between full moons is 29.53 days. The average month length is 365.25/12=30.44 days. So the full moon moves on average 0.91 days earlier each month. That means it happens twice in a month on average every 30/0.91 month or 33 months, or every 2.7 years or so.

My speculation is that between the two of you, you heard pieces of two different stories, and neither really heard the whole story.

If the media would have reported this hoax email, I would want to find that article and nasty-gram them.
I searched for media outlets in a search for two moons and Florida. The only mainstream I found was Orlando Sentinel, which might be related to a TV station (most are).
But, the story explains it as a hoax.

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I find that difficult to believe.

I saw the moon around that time. The one moon. Nothing else covered nearly so much of the sky.

BA Blog: Today is the day Mars isn’t as big as the Moon!

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Oh; and an afterthough (I would have added an edit, but 01101001 posted)

It's possible the TV station reported "Coming up...Two moons in the sky" (of course in many more words) as a lead in to the story that debunks the email.

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The San Jose Mercury today had an article about tonight's eclipse, and a sidebar was the Mars-looks-as-big-as-the-Moon email:
E-mail can't make good on 2-moon show MARS WON'T APPEAR LARGER THAN LIFE.

Hooray for journalists who try to get it right.

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I'm afraid my Mars hoax link trumps your Mars hoax link because in mine the BA is quoted.

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My Andrew Fraknoi will fork your BA like a shrimp.

But trump away. I don't know the rules of the game anyway.

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Yes, we could! And I do think that's what he heard.

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