Urban Legends Reference Pages: Science (Mars Spectacular)

I ran across a post today about how Mars would be closer to us in August than in thousands of years and I did a double take. Didn't we go through this already, quite recently?

Yep. The same reports that came out in 2003 are being spread around right now, sometimes word for word except that "2003" has been replaced with "2005".

Snopes.com has taken the time to sort through the mess to determine what's hoax and what's fact on (relatively) close encounters between Mars and Earth . (Use title link.)