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Mars Set to Make Closest Approach to Earth in 11 Years
abc News on Yahoo ^ | 5/26/16 | Alyssa Newcomb - abc News

Posted on 05/28/2016 1:22:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

If Martians exist, they'll be closer to Earth on Memorial Day than they have been in 11 years.

This Monday, around 5:34 p.m. EDT, when many Americans may be enjoying a holiday barbecue, the Red Planet will be the closest it has been to Earth in more than a decade, coming within 46.8 million miles, according to NASA. The relatively close encounter with Earth comes a week after the Martian opposition, when Mars and the sun lined up on exact opposite sides of the Earth.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: approach; astronomy; closest; earth; mars; redplanet
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Mars is pictured in an image made with the Hubble Space Telescope when the planet was 50 million miles from Earth on May 12, 2016.
1 posted on 05/28/2016 1:22:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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Maybe I’m missing something, but is there like a story every few months where Mars makes some “closest approach” in X years?

It still isnt going to appear as anything other than a red dot to your eyes.


2 posted on 05/28/2016 1:25:43 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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see it Live at SLOOH .. or not.. ;-)
3 posted on 05/28/2016 1:25:45 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

We know now that in the early years of the twenty-first century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own. We know now that as human beings busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacence people went to and fro over the earth about their little affairs, serene in the assurance of their dominion over this small spinning fragment of solar driftwood which by chance or design man has inherited out of the dark mystery of Time and Space. Yet across an immense ethereal gulf, minds that are to our minds as ours are to the beasts in the jungle, intellects vast, cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.


4 posted on 05/28/2016 1:25:47 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Cruz never could have outfought Trump.But I didn't know until this day that it was Romney all along.)
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To: VanDeKoik

go look and see-it’s worth it


5 posted on 05/28/2016 1:28:05 PM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: VanDeKoik

I kind of like seeing double. Venus is huge and Mars has been so easy to spot the last couple of weeks. Bright orange and not twinkling due south about 1/3 of the way up. My favorites are the blue stars.


6 posted on 05/28/2016 1:28:07 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Jim Noble

Orson Welles, The War of the Worlds


7 posted on 05/28/2016 1:29:41 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: NormsRevenge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nOE6g0G63Q

It will be closer than we think. LOL


8 posted on 05/28/2016 1:29:52 PM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Any time now Hillary will be bring out the rent-a-dogs and grandbaby for sympathy!)
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To: huldah1776

I know nothing of the location of planets. I did download an app on my android that shows the position of stars and planets. I can whip that thing out and spot what I’m looking for.

Cool app.


9 posted on 05/28/2016 1:31:19 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (www.greenhornshooting.com - Professional handgun training.)
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To: NormsRevenge




"Finally! My chance has arrived."
10 posted on 05/28/2016 1:38:10 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: NormsRevenge

Perhaps this has something to do with recent earthquake and volcanic activity.


11 posted on 05/28/2016 1:59:55 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: thoughtomator

Uh, no.


12 posted on 05/28/2016 2:08:02 PM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: Jim Noble

In other words, New Jersey, watch out!


13 posted on 05/28/2016 2:08:08 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: VanDeKoik

just like the “super moon.”

MSM reported ever full moon as a super moon for about a year.


14 posted on 05/28/2016 2:08:42 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (This time it is serious.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Just keep that planet away from me.


15 posted on 05/28/2016 2:09:51 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( It Can't Happen Here -- Sinclair Lewis.)
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To: hadaclueonce

Definitely caused by global warming


16 posted on 05/28/2016 2:10:52 PM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: NormsRevenge

17 posted on 05/28/2016 2:27:29 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: huldah1776
Mars has been so easy to spot the last couple of weeks. Bright orange and not twinkling due south about 1/3 of the way up.

Yes, Mars is very bright (orange) and easy to see at this time.

18 posted on 05/28/2016 2:32:48 PM PDT by ETL (God help America...asap)
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To: T. P. Pole

This article explicitly disclaims the idea (with claims to authority) yet is evidence that we are currently experiencing an unusual cluster of volcanic activity.

http://www.wired.com/2016/05/please-dont-blame-mars-weeks-explosive-volcanic-eruptions/

The possibility that there are physical processes going on that we don’t understand is not zero.


19 posted on 05/28/2016 2:41:19 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: thoughtomator

Well, not zero, but about as close as you can get without it being zero. That recent comet flyby had more gravitational influence than Mars. Gravity is pretty weak.


20 posted on 05/28/2016 2:47:27 PM PDT by T. P. Pole
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