Penampakan planet Mars 27 Agustus 2009

Jujur aja, saya jadi gak bisa tidur karena mendapat sms dari teman* yang mengatakan ada penampakan planet mars pada tanggal 27 Agustus 2009. Gak tanggung-tanggung, katanya kejadian ini akan terjadi lagi pada tahun 2287. Wah kalau gitu saya harus hidup mati hidup mati donk? Kayak saklar aja, hehehe... Tapi untuk menjaga perasaan dia (cieh...), saya rela bangun jam 12 malam untuk melihat planet merah ini. Eh tahunya sampai jam 1 belum nongol juga tuh planet mars, kira-kira kemana ya?

Akhirnya bosen juga melototin langit, sampai jam 2 pula, huh... Mana suasana serem lagi, jadi takut keluar rumah, yaudah lihat dari dapur aja...
Wah akhirnya udah jam 3, kayaknya isu penampakan planet mars hoax. Makanya jadi kepikiran buat postingan ini. Mana nyamuk banyak lagi, untung aja punya trik gimana cara ngilangin nyamuk pakai komputer, jadi kabur semua tuh nyamuk! Tumben nih buat postingan jam 3 malam...

Jadi kasihan sama teman-teman semua yang percaya penampakan mars ini. Sebenarnya dari awal saya sudah gak percaya, tapi lihat aja deh, hehehe...

Ini nih saya ada beberapa bekal untuk menghindari isu-isu seperti ini:

Begitu mendapat pesan seperti ini, sebaiknya jangan langsung percaya, walaupun akhirnya berita ini benar. Lebih baik tanya dulu sama yang lain. Sekarang kan sudah canggih, gunakan fasilitas internet untuk mencari kebenaran berita-berita seperti ini.

Seperti saya ini, malam-malam gak bolong jalan-jalan ke web milik NASA,

There's a rumor about Mars going around the internet. Here are some snippets from a widely-circulated email message:

"The Red Planet is about to be spectacular."

"Earth is catching up with Mars [for] the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history."

"On August 27th … Mars will look as large as the full moon."

And finally, "NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN."

Only the first sentence is true. The Red Planet is about to be spectacular. The rest is a hoax.

Here are the facts: Earth and Mars are converging for a close encounter this year on October 30th at 0319 Universal Time. Distance: 69 million kilometers. To the unaided eye, Mars will look like a bright red star, a pinprick of light, certainly not as wide as the full Moon.

Disappointed? Don't be. If Mars did come close enough to rival the Moon, its gravity would alter Earth's orbit and raise terrible tides.

Sixty-nine million km is good. At that distance, Mars shines brighter than anything else in the sky except the Sun, the Moon and Venus. The visual magnitude of Mars on Oct. 30, 2005, will be -2.3. Even inattentive sky watchers will notice it, rising at sundown and soaring overhead at midnight.

You might remember another encounter with Mars, about two years ago, on August 27, 2003. That was the closest in recorded history, by a whisker, and millions of people watched as the distance between Mars and Earth shrunk to 56 million km. This October's encounter, at 69 million km, is similar. To casual observers, Mars will seem about as bright and beautiful in 2005 as it was in 2003.

Although closest approach is still months away, Mars is already conspicuous in the early morning. Before the sun comes up, it's the brightest object in the eastern sky, really eye-catching. If you have a telescope, even a small one, point it at Mars. You can see the bright icy South Polar Cap and strange dark markings on the planet's surface.

Above: Painted green by a flashlight, astronomer Dennis Mammana of California points out Mars to onlookers on Aug. 26, 2003, the last time Mars was so close to Earth. Photo credit: Thad V'Soske.

One day people will walk among those dark markings, exploring and prospecting, possibly mining ice from the polar caps to supply their settlements. It's a key goal of NASA's Vision for Space Exploration: to return to the Moon, to visit Mars and to go beyond.

Every day the view improves. Mars is coming--and that's no hoax.

Tuh kan hoax?
Berita yang benar hanya mars akan mendekati bumi, dan ini bukan omong kosong.

Lihat acara berita, mau radio, tv atau internet gak masalah. Biasanya kalau berita-berita besar atau langka seperti ini, satu bulan sebelum hari H pasti sudah dibahas.

Nah itu aja pesan dari saya. Jadi kesimpulannya, penampakan planet mars 27 Agustus 2009 dinyatakan: "HOAX" alias "TIDAK BENAR"

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