Mars will make its closest approach to Earth on the last day of July. When will Mars approach Earth? The movement of the planets of the solar system Mars near the moon on August 27
Two moons in the sky: what is this phenomenon and when does it occur.
On August 27, the inhabitants of the Earth will witness a unique astronomical phenomenon- Mars will get as close as possible to our planet, due to this it will become visible to the naked eye. Due to the lower brightness, the red planet will appear smaller than the moon.
A rare "show of the planets" is expected at 0:30 (Moscow time) on 08/27/2016. According to skeptics, despite the fact that Mars will glow brighter than usual, the "double moon" as such is not intcbatch will be, since in the sky Mars will be visible as an additional red dot and nothing more.
We add that the "Red Planet" to the earth every 2 years and 2 months. This Saturday, Mars will approach the earth at 70-100 million kilometers. Despite the fact that this distance is not the closest, many have already reported that humanity will supposedly see two moons in the sky at once. However, the Tyumen expert denied this information and explained what would actually happen on Saturday.
Two moons in the sky 2016. PHOTO
"Mars will be visible in the south, like a dim star. Just above it will be Saturn, also like a dim star. Mars will go beyond the horizon by 10 pm. And the Moon will rise only by 2 am, it will already be August 28. In addition, it in the phase of the last quarter, that is, in the form of a month. Thus, the Moon and Mars will not meet that night, "explained Vitaly Ugreninov, an activist of the Tyumen-Kosmopoisk organization.
“Instead of a double moon, they will see the waning Moon and the star Betelgeuse. But to see this beauty, you need to get up at 4 am. Betelgeuse, a star from the constellation of Orion that adorns our sky in winter and summer, will be visible to the naked eye. And next to it there will be three stars in row. This is a characteristic belt of the constellation Orion," Ugreninov added.
Astrologers believe that the so-called "double moon" does not bear any negative consequences for humanity. However, we are in danger associated with the conjunction of Mars and Saturn on the star Aldeboran. The director of the Ural Astrological Institute, Oleg Lushnikov, said that this particular star is in very exact opposition to the star of Antares, thus creating an “axis of catastrophes”.
"Such a phenomenon occurs once every 30 years and, according to astrologers, promises great misfortune and catastrophes on a global scale. last time During this period, there was an explosion in Chernobyl and Perestroika began, destroying the USSR and the balance of power in the world," he said.
"Tsunamis, floods, earthquakes, other natural and man-made accidents are also possible," the astrologer predicts.
For a long time, the entire Internet was filled with articles aboutclose approach of Mars to Earth. Even the exact time is indicated when the planet Mars will approach the Earth and that, allegedly, in the night sky it will be the brightest star along with the Moon.
Here is what they write:
"August 27 at 00:30 in the night sky, everyone can see an unusual sight. The planet Mars will pass only 34.65 thousand / 34.65 million miles (55 thousand km. /55 million km.) from the earth. To the naked eye, the planet will be visible as a full moon. It will look like two moons above the earth! The next time Mars will be this close to Earth will be in 2287."
From year to year, closer to August 27, more and more hysteria on this topic is growing on the Internet. Maybe all the same this year Mars will approach the Earth at the smallest distance?
This message is called the Martian hoax.
WHAT IS A MARS HOOK:
martian hoax is a hoax that happened in 2003. In an email that users sent to each other, it was claimed that on August 27, 2003, Mars will look larger than the full moon, subject to 75x magnification. It is not clear why, but Internet users happily ignored the clarification regarding the increase in the red planet by 75 times and quoted the message without this important clarification.
In 2003, Mars really had the smallest distance from the Earth in the last 59,000 years. After all, before that, Mars approached the Earth at a minimum distance on September 24, 57617 BC, more than 59 thousand years ago! Then the distance between the planets was 55.718 million kilometers, and in 2003 a little more - 55.758 million kilometers.
At the same time, in martian hoax the distance was indicated by about a thousand times less than the real one. After all, a distance of 34,000 miles is less than from the Earth to the Moon.
In reality, on August 27, 2003, people could see the full moon in the sky and bright dot nearby, because Mars was the brightest "star" in the sky that night.
Since then this martian hoax pops up almost every year, and August 27, 2015 is no exception.
However, astronomers say that on August 27, 2015, the moon-sized Mars will not be visible in the sky, because this is impossible under the circumstances that exist in the solar system. If Mars were at a distance sufficient for such an event, then its gravity would have a devastating effect on our planet.
Mars is about twice the diameter of our moon. This means that in order to have approximately the same apparent size in the sky, the red planet must be at a distance twice the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
Keep in mind that Mars has nine times the mass of the Moon. It would act on the blue planet with its gravity twice as much as the Moon. This would have caused unprecedented cataclysms on our planet.
P.S. It should be noted that many people are looking forward to similar event, which happens almost every year - the Supermoon. This is the full moon when the moon is closest to the earth. At the same time, the lunar ball visually seems much larger than usual. In 2015, this event will occur a little more than a month after the Martian hoax, so we are waiting Supermoon 2015.
"Supermoon(in English SuperMoon ) - this is the phase of the full moon (full moon), during which the lunar ball in the visual sky looks much larger than during ordinary full moons. According to NASA measurements, the lunar disk is expanding by about 15% and getting brighter by about 30%."
The astronomical phenomenon, which is a new moon or full moon, coinciding with the presence of the Moon at perigee - the point of the orbit closest to the Earth - could be observed in January, February, March, and will also be observed in August, September and October of the coming year.
Scientists calculate dates for 2015 supermoons
The first supermoon could be seen on January 20, 2015 - then a new moon appeared in the sky. New moons on February 18 and March 20 also became super moons. Full moons will also coincide with lunar perigee on August 29, September 28 and October 27.
The closest supermoon of 2015 will be the moon on September 28, which will approach the Earth at a distance of 356,896 kilometers. Moreover, the September full moon will give earthlings a full moon eclipse, ending a series of "blood moons" that began on April 15.
The red planet on the last Wednesday of August will approach the Earth at a minimum distance - the next time such an event will occur only in 2287
In April of this year, Mars was already at a distance of 92 million kilometers from our planet. In August, the maximum convergence of the red and blue planets will take place. This phenomenon does not occur often, which makes it unusual and of interest to astronomers.
Mars and Earth. Illustration: nasa.gov.
Popular science information swept through the media that the inhabitants of the Earth on August 27 will be able to see "two moons" at once. "At 00:30, the seventh largest red planet Mars will approach the Earth at a distance of 55-56 million km," numerous online publications and "reissues" chime.
He wrote: “There is widespread information that on August 27 the two planets will approach, and so much so that Mars in our sky will become like the full Moon. Only in Russia deprived of school astronomy can such nonsense appear. Everything is wrong. The only thing that is a stretch is true , this is an indication of August 27," the scientist complains.
He assured that on August 27, the Earth will come closest to the orbit of Mars, being near its perihelion (the closest point in the orbit of a planet or comet from the Sun). "But in order for the planets to be close to each other, Mars must also be at the perihelion point of its orbit at the same moment. And this happens infrequently. When this happens, the situation is called a great opposition. Then the distance between the planets decreases by about up to 55 - 56 million km. It's still a lot. Small Mars is visible as a bright orange star. A tiny disk of the planet can be seen through a telescope. Details can be seen in a good (or space) telescope - one of the polar caps, a dark detail called Big Syrt. But no more than that. Great confrontations are repeated in about 15-17 years, "Sergey Yazev explained, adding that "ordinary confrontations happen much more often - once every 780 days, which is about two earth years".
The Irkutsk astronomer was indirectly supported by the astrogorizont.com resource. Its authors tried to dispel the rumors spread by the popular media in this way: “The indicated distance between the planets of 34.65 thousand miles (and in some sources 50 thousand with something, which is also not true) should certainly have alerted. For reference, and for those who did not study at school, we tell: the diameter of the Earth in miles is approximately 8125 miles. The distance to the Moon is 384,467 km (one and a half times less in miles). It turns out that Mars should be closer to us than the Moon? Well, not thousands of miles.”
Wikipedia recalls that Mars is the fourth largest planet from the Sun and the seventh largest planet in the solar system; The mass of the planet is 10.7% of the mass of the Earth. In terms of linear size, Mars is almost half the size of the Earth - its equatorial radius is 3396.9 km (53.2% of the Earth's). The surface area of Mars is roughly equal to the land area of Earth.
The polar radius of Mars is about 20 km less than the equatorial one, although the period of rotation of the planet is longer than that of the Earth, which gives reason to assume a change in the rate of rotation of Mars with time.
The mass of the planet is 6.418 1023 kg (11% of the mass of the Earth). Acceleration free fall at the equator is 3.711 m / s² (0.378 Earth); the first cosmic velocity is 3.6 km / s and the second - 5.027 km / s.
The planet's rotation period is 24 hours 37 minutes 22.7 seconds (relative to the stars), the length of the average solar day (called sols) is 24 hours 39 minutes 35.24409 seconds, only 2.7% longer than the earth's day. The Martian year consists of 668.6 Martian solar days.
Mars as it really is. Photo: af.wikipedia.org/NASA/JPL.
Last update: 08/12/2014
No, they won't. This is a hoax spread by e-mail in 2003. As stated at the time, on 27 August 2003 will look bigger. Since then, rumors of an unusual natural phenomenon pop up every year with the onset of August.
“Firstly, the distance from our planet to Mars, even during periods of closest approach, is 50-60 million kilometers, and not 34,650 miles, or 55,760 kilometers, as indicated in the newsletter about the unusual expected phenomenon. Secondly, although the radius of the red planet is twice the radius of the moon, Mars is almost a hundred plus times farther from the Earth than our planet's satellite! The significant distance of Mars from the Earth, of course, affects its visibility: we see only a red shining dot in the sky even at the moments of the closest approach of Mars to the Earth. This year, during the period from August 24 to 30, Mars is visible only in the morning, and its brightness is +1.6m, which is approximately similar to the brightness of the Big Dipper stars. For comparison, the brightness of the moon on a full moon is -12.74m, ”said employee of the Moscow Planetarium Lyudmila Koshman.
Once every two years, Mars reaches a point in its orbit called opposition. At this moment, the Red Planet is located in the sky directly opposite the Sun, that is, from the point of view of an earthly observer, Mars is opposed to the Sun.
In 2003, Mars did indeed make its closest approach to Earth since 57,617 BC. Again, such a rapprochement of the planets can be observed only in 2287.
In April 2014, the distance between Mars and Earth became the smallest in the last six years. extra years(since December 2007) and amounted to 92 million kilometers. Our planets will approach by about the same amount on May 22, 2016.
The next approach will take place in 2018, and then Mars will approach the Earth by 57 million kilometers.
Can Mars look bigger than the Moon?
No, he can not. If Mars were to get close enough for such an event, its gravity would have a catastrophic effect. Mars is twice the diameter of the moon. This means that in order to have the same apparent size, it must be twice as far from the Earth as the Moon. With nine times the mass, it would exert its gravity on the Earth about twice as much as the Moon.
Sunset on Mars May 19, 2005. A snapshot of the Mars rover "Spirit", which was in the Gusev crater. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org / NASA
How does the distance between Mars and Earth change?
The distance between Earth and Mars is constantly changing. The planets are closest to each other when the Earth is between the Sun and Mars. During such a period, the distance between the planets is from 55 to 100 million km. The distance reaches its maximum value when the Sun is between the Earth and Mars. In this case, the planets are at the most distant points of their orbits, and the distance between them is approximately 400 million km.
The science
The planet Mars won't look as big as the moon, August 27, 2014, August 27, 2015 and not even August 27, 2287.
Rumors that "two moons" will shine on the night of August 27 appear every summer with enviable constancy over the past few years.
martian hoax began in 2004 and began to spread on the Internet under the guise of an email. According to the report, on the night of August 27, Mars will approach its minimum distance from Earth and will be visible as large as the full moon.
Mars August 27, 2014
The message appeared every year for seven years, and then, after slowing down a little, reappeared in in social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
Message sounds like this:
"August 27 at 00:33 raise your eyes and look at the night sky. On this night, the planet Mars will pass only 34,650 miles from Earth. To the naked eye it will be visible as two moons above the Earth! The next time Mars will be this close to Earth is in 2287. Share this news with your friends, because no one living on Earth has ever seen this."
A photo that circulates on social media with the message that Mars will supposedly be as big and bright as the full moon on August 27, 2014.
In addition, a photo of a full moon along with an incredibly large Mars is often attached to the message. Incredible, since even at the closest approach to the Earth ( 55.6 million kilometers, but not thousands) Mars will be visible to the naked eye no more than 1/72 the size of the full moon.
Approach of Mars to Earth
The hoax appeared in the year when there was really a record approach of Mars to Earth for almost 60,000 years, and it was August 27, 2003. And although the Red Planet then looked 6 times larger than usual, its diameter in no way approached the size of the Moon, even when magnified with a telescope.
Fact 2: Over the past 6 years, Mars came closest to the Earth on April 8 and 14, 2014, being at a distance of 92 million kilometers. At that moment, it looked no brighter than the brightest star in the night sky, Sirius, and in no way approached the size of the moon.