Re: S&T online article ... help

Ian Anderson wrote:
> (Mars being visible by eye and as large as the moon etc).
>
> S&T did not write this. The 2005 opposition will not be as close as the
> 2003 which, while visible to the eye as a bright red dot, was clearly
> not the size of the moon.

Anthony did not claim that Sky and Telescope wrote the offending chain
e-mail. He said that they wrote an article about it, which happened to
debunk it.

It is the second news brief from the June 12 news bulletin:

http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1529_1.asp

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