Re: [pf] Fw. Mars news.

At 11:50 18/4/2001 +1200, I wrote to Positive Futures:
>· This is mainly to create a record, so I and others can find it later.
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>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010411/sc/space_mars_dc_4.html is:
> Mars Odyssey on Way to Red Planet; Reuters; April 11 10:26 AM ET
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>· and:
>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010417/sc/space_mars_dc_6.html is:
> NASA Asks Industry to Study How to Get Mars Rocks; Tuesday April 17 7:14 PM
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· I did re-check and the only one I can now find (in Yahoo News Search) is:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/space/20010521/sc/earth_and_mars_converge_1.html
 [all on same line in browser.]

· It has:
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“"The next few months will be a great time to look at Mars," said astronomy
professor George Lebo, a NASA (news - web sites) summer faculty fellow at
the Marshall Space Flight Center. "You won't need a telescope to see it. By
early June, Mars will outshine everything except Venus, the Moon and the
Sun itself." 

Mars is already a brilliant morning "star." Early rising observers in the
Northern Hemisphere can spot the rust-colored orb about 30 degrees above
the southern horizon. Sky watchers south of the equator will see Mars
arcing high overhead before dawn. In either hemisphere, the planet is easy
to pick out near the spout of the teapot-shaped constellation Sagittarius.
Mars is bright and doesn't twinkle like a real star -- its steady
copper-hued gaze is unmistakable. 

In the weeks ahead, the Red Planet will grow even brighter as it approaches
opposition on June 13th -- the date when Earth and Mars are lined up on the
same side of the Sun. Astronomers call the arrangement opposition because
Mars and the Sun will lie on opposite sides of our planet's sky. Mars is at
opposition once every 26 months. 

If the orbits of Mars and Earth were perfectly circular, then the distance
between two planets would be least at the moment of opposition. But that's
not the case. Earth's orbit is slightly elliptical and the Martian orbit is
substantially more so. As a result, our closest approach to Mars won't
happen until eight days later on June 21st.”

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sent on to PF by David.

(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top
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