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Mars Swings Unusually Close to Earth

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the violating-personal-space dept.

amazon10x writes "Mars will come unusually close to the Earth on Saturday; the second time in 60,000 years. The last occurrence was in 2003. 'This is the best we're going to see Mars, so we should strike the iron while it is hot,' said Kelly Beatty, executive editor of Sky & Telescope magazine. The Red Planet will be 43.1 million miles from Earth at 11:25pm [Eastern time]." Update by J : Starting a few hours after sunset, look fairly high in the eastern sky.

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  1. Re:Time zone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Don't forget to blame the jackass webcrawler author of the TFA, as well as HomoboyNeal.

  2. Re:Hunker Down by jellomizer · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I bet some how NPR will blame George Bush for this, or criticize him for not sending men to get there quicker, or criticize him for him putting to much money is space travel.

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  3. Re:Wow. by ozmanjusri · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Men" is commonly accepted to mean "people".

    Only by sexist "people".

    The sad thing is you were modded Insightful.

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    Then you can cheer right back up. the only Insightful moderation was in your own imaginitive little mind.
    Hey it's the thought that counts though, so thanks!

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