Its the Mars time of year again


	Its the Mars time of year again

Oortcloud

7-27-2007 2:40 PM

710 views

tags:

astronomy, mars, debunk, myth, email

Oortcloud says:

Every year at this time the claim of Mars being at its closest filters through the internet. Take this moment to educate those donkeys that believe in this nonsense and pass on the truth.

1 Comment |

Add a Comment

8-2-2007 10:38 AM

book-mole

Passing it round. Educating donkeys. Daft, innit, what people believe. Good cartoon, nevertheless.

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

Related Clips

More clips from Oortcloud

Tiny new battery is printable

Sri Lanka astrologer is arrested

Past Climate change cannot be tied to Eart...

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from July 27, 2007

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1f02c259-b505-44f3-a453-3c0c1c303d1e/2F1734CE-C4C8-4E2B-9877-7E67A1CD11E5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/07/27/mars-wont-be-as-big-as-the-moon-get-over-it/" href="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/07/27/mars-wont-be-as-big-as-the-moon-get-over-it/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.badastronomy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/07/27/mars-wont-be-as-big-as-the-moon-get-over-it/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.badastronomy.com/img/8CCC1D87-B733-4666-9127-962040D098ED" alt="cartoon making fun of a close approach of Mars" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/07/27/mars-wont-be-as-big-as-the-moon-get-over-it/"><P>Every year. Every fracking year.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/07/27/mars-wont-be-as-big-as-the-moon-get-over-it/"><P>The email, I hear, is going around again. The one that says that if you go outside next month and look at Mars, it’ll be as big as the Moon. You know; the one I debunked <A target="_blank" href="http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/news/marsattacks.html">here</A> and <A target="_blank" href="http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/news/marsattacks2005.html">here</A> and <A target="_blank" href="http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/news/marsattacks2006.html">here</A> and <A target="_blank" href="http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/news/marsattacks2006.html">here</A>, every year since this dumb thing started back in 2003. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/07/27/mars-wont-be-as-big-as-the-moon-get-over-it/"><P>Short and sweet: Mars won’t look big to the eye (the email says, not very clearly, that through a telescope mars will look as big as the Moon does to the eye) in August. It never gets that close. It won’t even be particularly bright in August; it’ll shine at magnitude 0.4 or so, roughly as bright as the star Aldebaren, which in fact is just a few degrees from Mars in the sky (they make a nice pair, too, since they are both ruddy in color as well).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/07/27/mars-wont-be-as-big-as-the-moon-get-over-it/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.badastronomy.com/img/7A99039A-C611-4EAB-B2A4-BA1CA1C569A0" alt="image of orbits of Mars and Earth in August 2007" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/07/27/mars-wont-be-as-big-as-the-moon-get-over-it/"><P>As you can see in this image, in August Mars won’t be at its closest to Earth, and in fact will be about 180 million kilometers (over 100 million miles) away. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2F1734CE-C4C8-4E2B-9877-7E67A1CD11E5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Blog; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Related Clips

More clips from Oortcloud

Today's Top Clips