Mars As Visible As The Moon In August

An email that has circulated during July and August for several years is again hitting inboxes in 2009. The message informs recipients that the planet Mars will be passing very close to Earth in August. While this information was valid back in 2003, it is totally inaccurate for 2009. One of the 2009 incarnations of the hoax consists of a PowerPoint slide presentation that provides basically the same information as contained in the above email along with several more photographs of Mars

The year is not specifically mentioned in the message and a great many recipients therefore assume that the message refers to August, 2009. Virtually identical (and equally misleading) messages were circulating back in July and August 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

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tkD said:

I'd love to see this, but i'm afraid it's just another lie on the internet. What i've found is that every year, it was bullshit



http://www.hoax-slayer.com/mars-earth-close.html

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Chesticles said:

Apparently the last time this happened was between 5 and 60 thousand years ago, and won't happen again until 2287.
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Pain said:

Yea, that sounds about right.

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