Comet, Mars and an Eclipse...

[P3D Shelley, Dan <dshelley@xxxxxxxx>]

I will do my best to get SOMETHING 3D from all of this, but thought 
that if a few more of us in different locations were trying... who 
knows what we might get? Here is an info clip of text from the PBS show 
Starhustler:

"At 10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time or your local equivalent is when you 
should
start to watch the eclipse because at that time the Moon will slowly 
start
drifting in to the deepest part of our Earth's curved shadow, the 
umbra. And
for the next hour and 40 minutes you will be able to watch the Moon as 
it
changes to a rusty red-yellow color. And at 11:40 P.M., Eastern time or 
your
local equivalent, 92% of the Moon will be covered. Then for the next 
hour and
40 minutes the process will reverse as the Moon slowly slides out of 
the
Earth's curved shadow. Now what I want you all to watch for is this: 
#1. The
curvature of the Earth's shadow which is what Aristotle used as his 
proof
that the Earth was indeed round. #2. As the Moon gets progressively 
darker
watch Mars appear to get brighter. And incredibly, at deepest eclipse, 
11:40
P.M., Eastern time or your local equivalent, the Moon will actually 
look the
way Mars would look if Mars were only half a million miles away. I mean 
the
Moon will look like it actually has a polar ice cap just like Mars. 
Even the
coloration will be similar. Indeed, the Moon will look like many of the
pictures taken of Mars as our spacecraft approached it. Wow! What a 
week.
Hale-Bopp at its closest, Mars at its brightest and an exquisite Palm 
Sunday
eclipse of the Moon. This is the week to Keep Looking Up!"


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