An email has been floating around, urging the reader to not miss an event on the 27th August 2009. It is indeed a rare occurrence to have Mars so near to Earth! Though, apparently, it was closest in 2003, and not this year.
See the following links:
1. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/09jun_marshoax.htm 2. http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/errata/ss/mars_in_august.htm 3. http://www.otastro.org/Mars2005/
According to NASA, such an occurrence happens in a 60,000 cycle, so if you miss it six years ago … you got to be around 59,994 years later. Maybe we will see it when we come around as human beings a few more times. Maybe.
The fact that Mars will pass around its orbit is quite certain (unless so catastrophic astronomical event happen); that it’s orbit and Earth’s orbit will be closest once more in some distant future is also rather certain, based on present conditions. Whether we will regain human rebirth a few more times is not certain. Unless we live humanely, observing the precepts, sowing the conditions for human rebirth. Then that is certain.
While it is another 60,000 years or so before Mars will come around, it will be many hundreds, thousands of years, aeons, before the next Buddha will arise and teach the . . . → Read More: Mars will be nearest to Earth soon … or not!
