Friday, July 28, 2006

Thank Goodness for Museum Blogs!

A couple of weeks ago, I received a forwarded email from a friend that said that an extraordinary event would occur on the 27th of August; Mars would appear to be very close to earth - it would in fact 'look like the Earth has two moons'. Not being very clued up in things astronomical, I thought that this sounded pretty cool. I probably even forwarded the email onto a few friends as well.

Thank goodness then for the Sydney Observatory's new blog, produced by the Powerhouse museum. Reading one of their posts, I discovered, that this email was a hoax! Reading this, I felt a little silly of course, but not as silly as I would have felt all bleary eyed on the 27th of August. As Nick Lomb from the Sydney Observatory notes, you can't believe everything you read on the Internet. Except when you read it on a blog of course ;)

(thanks also to Bila + Design for the link to the Sydney Observatory's new blog)

Posted by Lisa at 9:01 AM