Mars 27th August

An email today alerts me to the fact that on 27th August Mars will be as large as the moon (above at about 12.30 am), next time this occurs will be in 60,000 years time, although it will be nearly as close many times before that.

That means that no-one alive today will ever have such a good chance of seeing the 'Red Planet' again in their lifetimes.

Now my check on this ( and my memory) reminds me of a similar message in 2003 and 2005.

So this is a good example of the 'authenticity' of information arriving in your mailbox or found on the Net ... we should be showing these things to our children/students and pointing out that they should check and double check for authentic information before they believe what they read.