Tonight is the night the whole world is waiting for … Earth will have two moons.
An email being circulated tells amateur astronomers that the planet Mars will be so bright that, to the naked eye, “it will appear to be the same size as the moon.” The message says “no one alive today will ever see it again,” because it won’t happen again until 2287 — that’s 277 years from now.
As you might have guessed, that’s just bogus. [Read more…]