[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: <5.2.0.9.2.20030611125744.0333fe90_at_pibburns.com>

At 06:44 PM 6/11/2003 +0100, you wrote:

>Wasn't 70,000 years ago the last time mars was in as close proximity as it
>will be this august? Maybe this is a head up for this coming oppositon.

The apparent size of Mars this coming August will be the largest in the
past 2,000 years. I don't know anything about Martian oppositions in the
Pleistocene. Perhaps Ron Baalke or someone else here has ready access to
such data.

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.


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Received on Wed 11 Jun 2003 02:10:00 PM PDT