FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:
It’s August, so you’ve probably received excited email messages stuffed with CAPITAL LETTERS touting an Aug. 27 event in which the planet Mars will appear “as large as the full moon … It will look as though the Earth has two moons!!” Well, no. It’s a hoax, or at best a garbled repetition of advisories for a 2003 event in which Mars was unusually close to Earth. But even then it still appeared no bigger than a bright red star. Just delete the message. It will pop up again next August.