[meteorite-list] Re: Human bottleneck around 70,000 years ago and Mars god of war.

From: Philip R. Burns <pib_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:36 2004
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030611131811.031b9d50_at_pibburns.com>

At 01:10 PM 6/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>This August (2003) Mars will display an apparent diameter of 25.11 arc
>seconds at a distance of 55.76 AU.
>The last time Mars appeared this large to terrestrial observers was in
>August 1924 when the Martian disk was 25.10 arc seconds in size. August
>1845 offered a disk size of 25.09 arc seconds and August 1766, 25.08 arc
>seconds.

The closest distance of Mars this August will be 55.76 million kilometers,
which is 0.3727 AU. Sorry about that brain cramp.


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Received on Wed 11 Jun 2003 02:21:29 PM PDT