After sea water turning sweet and deities drinking milk, will two moons now shine in the sky? According to an e-mail circulating in cyberspace, the red planet Mars will be exceptionally close to the earth on August 27 this year and "it will look like the earth has two moons".

However, astronomers are calling it a hoax. Nehru Planetarium director N Rathnashree calls it "The Great Mars Hoax". On August 27, there is nothing special connected with Mars, she told PTI.

However, an interesting conjunction that can be seen early in the morning of the 27th - Saturn and Venus appearing very close to each other, low in the eastern skies, she said. So close to each other, that they might look like a single object. But one will need clear skies low in the eastern horizon to see this event, Dr Rathnashree said.