Guest guest Posted May 16, 2003 Report Share Posted May 16, 2003 I had a wonderful view of the lunar eclipse last night (Southern California), although it was different than I expected. It did not darken as much as I had thought it would, and it appeared to be covered then uncovered from the same side. Since I only witnessed the middle portion of the process, perhaps it was my mistake, but it seemed that way to me. Someone told me, last night, that on August 25-26 Mars will be closer to the Earth than it has been in an enormous number of years (I was quoted 60,000 but I do not know if that's reliable). Is this true? Does this kind of event have an astrological impact? I've never heard that it does, but one lives and learns... Does anyone know? -Mary Quinn The New Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 17, 2003 Report Share Posted May 17, 2003 Ebertin and the Cosmobiological community believe distance values are important. My own brief research suggested that where they are especially important is when a planet closely approaches or leaves the minimum and maxim distance position. Very similar to the retrograde to direct and direct to retrograde positions. Ron Gaunt On Fri, 16 May 2003 09:03:49 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >Greetings all, > >I had a wonderful view of the lunar eclipse last night (Southern California), although it was different than I expected. It did not darken as much as I had thought it would, and it appeared to be covered then uncovered from the same side. Since I only witnessed the middle portion of the process, perhaps it was my mistake, but it seemed that way to me. > >Someone told me, last night, that on August 25-26 Mars will be closer to the Earth than it has been in an enormous number of years (I was quoted 60,000 but I do not know if that's reliable). Is this true? Does this kind of event have an astrological impact? I've never heard that it does, but one lives and learns... > >Does anyone know? > >-Mary Quinn > > > > >The New Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 Hi, Mary, Information on Mars' August 27, 2003 perihelic perigee can be found at: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/mars_preview_021108.html According to the original estimates by Jean Meeus, Mars hasn't been this close for 73,000 years. Myles Standish at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory refined the calculation to show Mars hasn't been this close for ~60,000 years. See details at the URL above. ~B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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