[extropy-chat] [ASTRO/BS] Mars as big as the moon?

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Thu Jun 9 00:11:51 UTC 2005


At 04:57 PM 6/8/2005 -0700, Jef wrote:

>understood it to mean that *with a modest 75-power magnification*, Mars 
>would look as large as the full moon to the naked eye.
>Makes sense?

Yep. Terrible original sentence and formatting, though. And as Hal pointed 
out, it applied to 2003.

Damien Broderick 




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