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Palomar

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Re: Mars & Luna

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005 … h.gif]*Sky Map.  They'll be awfully "close" tomorrow morning:  4:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time

And from an accompanying article:

May 27, 2005: By the time you finish reading this sentence, you'll be 25 miles closer to the planet Mars.

Earth is racing toward Mars at a speed of 23,500 mph, which means the red planet is getting bigger and brighter by the minute. In October, when the two planets are closest together, Mars will outshine everything in the night sky except Venus and the Moon. (You're another 50 miles closer: keep reading!)

It's only May, now, but Mars is already eye-catching. You can see it early in the morning, rising before the sun in the eastern sky, shining almost twice as bright as a 1st-magnitude star. A sky map, below, shows where to find Mars on Tuesday morning, May 31st, when it appears beautifully close to the Moon.

This info being hosted by spaceweather.com.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005 … tm]Article

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)