TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE

I teach fifth grade and our class has a class blog. It is called "The Skinny". As I was typing today's post to that blog I though that you might like to know this stuff too. When you are done reading this entry please hop on over to our class blog and check it out.

I haven't confirmed this yet but I just got an email that says that on Monday, August 27th (at 12:30) there will be two moons in the sky.

Well, not two moons . What you will see is our moon and the planet Mars.

Mars is traveling very close to our home planet and it will only be 35 million miles away and although seems like a long ways off, and it is, its going to look pretty big in the sky.

The neat thing about this is that it is not going to happen again until the year 2287. No one alive now will be alive then to see it.

Soooooooooooooo, don't miss out on the chance of a lifetime.

Can anyone tell me why Mars is called the Angry Red Planet?

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