Mars close encounter

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Earth set for Mars close encounter

: "Mars will make its closest approach to Earth for almost 60,000 years on Wednesday. Dr Robin Catchpole, senior astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, explains how to witness the event."

Incase you don't know...it really is a once in a lifetime opportunity. The next time Mars comes this close might be 2287!! It's Jupiter pulling on Mars which has this effect and it may not have happened for 5 000 or maybe 60 000 years.They are not sure. Mars will be within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and visible as the brightest object in the sky apart from the moon. It will look as large as the moon so it'll be hard to miss this one. Mars will rise at nightfall.....so get ready...