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6:25 pm
Tuesday 06 October 2020
Books – Youssef Afifi:
The sky of the world is witnessing this afternoon, Tuesday, the approach of the planet Mars to Earth at the closest distance between them since 2003, and Mars will be only 62 million kilometers from Earth, bright in the midnight sky and will be about three times brighter than the star Sirius, which can be seen with the eye. The abstract.
Dr. Ashraf Tadros, former head of the astronomy department at the National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research, said that both Earth and Mars rotate in elliptical orbits around the sun.
Tadros explained to Masrawy on Tuesday that Earth is the third planet in order away from the sun, and Mars is the fourth planet, so the distance between them is not fixed, sometimes it is large and other times it is small depending on their position in orbit, and the distance between them today will reach 62 million km. Almost.
And Tadros continued: “The closest distance to Mars in relation to Earth was in 2003, and it is rightly considered the smallest actual distance that Mars can reach away from Earth, since the distance between them was only about 56 millions of kilometers “.
He added that this phenomenon makes Mars shine with a remarkable brightness in the sky, and is seen with the naked eye without the need for telescopes, which indicates that it is a natural phenomenon, since all the planets move towards and away from the earth, and the phenomenon has no harm to Earth or humans.
Dr. Muhammad Gharib, head of the Sun Department of the National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research, asked astronomers to enjoy seeing Mars approaching Earth, on Tuesday, in an astronomical phenomenon that has been the closest to the Earth since 2003.
Gharib explained to Masrawy that the benefits of the phenomenon lie in organizing the orbits of the planets around the sun, especially the orbit of the Earth around the sun, and ensuring the speeds of these orbits, as well as that astronomers better enjoy the close-up of Mars to Earth in the telescope, as the phenomenon benefits celestial mechanics. (Orbits) to adjust the orbits of the planets around the sun, including planet Earth.
He noted that the phenomenon does not have any harm to the globe, since the planets travel in their orbits and approach the Earth normally and there is nothing new in it.
