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August 28, 2010
whoops, so it wasn't Mars?
On the way home from the mall last night (it was late) we saw an AWESOME looking full moon. It was really cool and Quinn and Allison were mesmerized by it. Well last night when I got home, someone had posted on facebook that Mars was going to look like a double moon yesterday... so without any research I thought that must have been what we saw since it was so spectacular, so I ran up and told Quinn what we thought was the moon was really Mars. I even told him that it was a once in a lifetime thing - that it would never be this close to us again. He was so super psyched. In fact it was after midnight before he could fall asleep (I think the m&m sundae at dinner was also partly to blame). So tonight I thought I'd dig in and check it out and it seems it's a big farce.
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/will-mars-appear-as-large-as-a-full-moon-in-august-2010
So do I fess up?
Posted by terri at August 28, 2010 11:07 PM