There is an email circulating the internet which claims to be supported by the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre and contains many factual errors. The email claims:
Two Moons in the Sky: The 27th of August, at 02:30 hours, look at the sky. Mars will be the brightest object in the sky; it will be as big as a full moon, at 55.75 million km from Earth. This event will not be repeated until the year 2287.
First, this e-mail is not from the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre. Second, there won’t be two moons in the sky because the moon won’t be up at the time and date in question.
Mars won’t be the size of the full moon nor will it be the brightest object in the sky — that honour would go to the planet Jupiter, which will be in the southwest and a bright, beautiful sight at that time.
The distance to Mars will be 242.05 million km away from the Earth and not 55.75 million km. To find Mars, look due east where a triangle of red coloured stars will be visible. Mars will be the left most (or northern most) object in the triangle.
