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Thread #61821 Message #996590
Posted By: kendall
04-Aug-03 - 02:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Closest in 60,000 years - seeing 'Red'
Subject: RE: BS: Closest in 60,000 years - seeing 'Red'
We saw it around midnight at the Champlain Valley festival. I don't know how anyone could mistake Mars with Arcturus. Mars is a planet, Arcturus a star. Also, Mars is in the east, and the big dipper in the north points toward Arcturus.