[SOC] Mars Update

[Ron Wetjen]

Earlier this month, someone posted a note about Mars being it's closest 
to Earth, and that at 75 power "Mars will look as large as the full moon 
to the naked eye".

At the time I wrote "I think not".


I just read an article at http://www.msnbc.com/news/956012.asp?0sl=-11
which said

"Mars will not, despite some rumors on the Internet, look as big as the 
moon or cause any sort of gravitational calamity on Earth.

It's still going to look like a dot in the sky, albeit a bright dot," 
said Charles Liu, an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural 
History's Hayden Planetarium. "The fact that it is a 60,000-year record 
is still kind of fun and interesting."


Like I wrote a few weeks ago, go out and enjoy the view ... but don't be 
fooled (disappointed) by the hype.

Ron, WD4AHZ