[ExI] Myth or Factual for Aug 27?

[Michael M. Butler]

Anna, your friend has the right month and day, but the wrong year.
What your friend is talking about actually already happened, in 2003.

At 5:51 a.m. EDT on Aug. 27, 2003, Mars was reportedly within
34,646,418 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) of Earth. This was the
closest that Mars has come to our planet in nearly 60,000 years.

Sorry to disappoint.

-- 
         Michael M. Butler  :  m m b u t l e r  ( a t )  g m a i l . c o m
I've pulled birdshot out of ducks that didn't teleport at the right
time.  --J Thomas