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Planet Mars closest to Earth on Oct 6: PSI Director

| @indiablooms | Oct 05, 2020, at 09:19 pm

Hyderabad/UNI: Planet Mars will be closest and it can get to Earth on Tuesday.

In other words, Planet Mars in its Journey around Sun will reach a point in its orbit which is closest it can get at 7.47 p.m. tomorrow at 0.415 AU i.e 6,20,83,116 km (62.02 Million Km).

Planetary Society of India (PSI) Director N Sri Raghunandan Kumar told UNI that this closest approach of Mars is due to a celestial phenomenon called “Mars Opposition to Sun” which occurs once in every 26 months.

He said on October 14 at 4.56 a.m, Mars will be at Opposition to Sun because of which Planet Mars will be Closest and it can get to earth in the next 13 years.

Due to this celestial phenomenon of opposition, Mars and Sun will be Opposite to each other and in a straight line from our perspective on earth.

Whenever a planet is at Opposition, it would be closest in its orbit to earth than any other time. Hence this year Mars will appear Closest, brightest and biggest (from Telescope),  Kumar said. 

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