Mars - Is swinging by Earth

" The Red Planet will pass unusually close to Earth tonight, appearing as a yellow twinkle in the night sky. Mars' latest rendezvous will not match its record-breaking approach in 2003, but more people will be able to see it because it will be visible above the horizon. This pass will bring Mars a little over 41 (m) million miles away, compared to 35 (m) million miles in 2003. The two planets will not be this close again until 2018. If you would like to read more go to: http://skyandtelescope.com"

Mars - From Earth -Tonight After 8pm

 

Clocks - Turn Back 1-hour Tonight

"How day-light savings time got started?..An Englishman named William Willett -1907 noticed houses with their shades drawn during the daytime. He considered this "a waste of daylight. The idea didn't get anywhere until 1916, however, when England figured out during World War I that the country could save energy by changing the clock. The United States followed suit in 1918. But people hated it and the law was repealed. Until World War II, that is. Until 1966 local governments in the United States followed a kind of free-form daylight-saving time. Some did it, some didn't. Some started earlier in the year, some later. As you can imagine, this was kind of confusing, especially for public transportation and broadcasters. So in 1966 Congress passed a law saying if you wanted to follow daylight-saving time, it had to follow the national pattern.But the tweaking didn't stop there. In 1973, when Nixon was president and during the OPEC oil embargo, Congress enacted a special, two-year daylight-saving period. It wasn't continued in 1975 because agricultural states didn't like it. Finally, in 1986, Ronald Reagan made one last change.** But..This may change again! Bush wants to play with the months to make more time on both ends spring and fall in the year 2007 if the bills passes, we'll see."