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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence. Mars Close-up, in your face, first time in 60,000 years Mars is coming close to earth, the closest orbit it’s been in for 60,000 years. Its closest path will come on August 27th at 5:51 am. EDT when Mars will be less than 34.65 million miles away. It’s not far is it…! The last time it came near was around September 12th in 57,617 BC (does anyone recognise this year?) when Mars came about 25,000 miles closer, at a distance of 34.62 million miles from earth. “If Neanderthals had telescopes, they would have seen it a little better than we will on August 27th,” said astronomer Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington. The backyard observers, Mars will be the brightest natural object in the sky other than the sun and the moon, Chester said in a telephone interview. Even though it will be close, it will not look much bigger than it usually does. “People are kind of all thinking that all you’ve got to do is go outside and you’re going to see this big red blob that’s half the size of the moon,” Chester said. “That’s not the case.” What people most likely will see is a brilliant pinkish object dominating the southern sky. At that point, Mars will be the brightest thing in the heavens. To get an idea of how big Mars will look, the typical thumb held at arms length covers about one degree of the sky, or 3,600 arc seconds. The moon is about half a degree of sky, 1,800 arc seconds. Mars at its closest will appear 25.11 arc seconds but still not as close as it was in Neanderthal times. “It is a marvellous opportunity to get people interested in astronomy and what you can see from your own backyard,” said Stephen Maran, an astronomer and spokesman for the American Astronomical Society. “We hope that more and more people will get used to looking at the sky so they will be interested in the effects to cut down on light pollution.” Mars Close-up, in your face, first time in 60,000 years written by Bill Barber |
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