LONDON: Mars is a small borough in Butler County that has a lot of fun with its name — a flying saucer likeness sits in the town square and the school nickname is the Fighting Planets.
And now, borough officials are planning its first Martian new year celebration on the eve of June 19 and on June 20 to coincide with that planet’s actual new year.
The Mars Historical Society decided to discontinue its traditional New Year’s celebration because of disinterest and frequent inclement winter weather, said Mayor Gregg Hartung, who at one point wondered out loud when the new year begins on the planet Mars.
He contacted the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and learned that each Mars year lasts the equivalent of two earth years because it takes the planet twice as long to revolve around the sun.
With a new year in Mars coming up, he spoke to someone at at NASA who wondered what the borough would like. The space agency assigned Mars a liaison and promised exhibits and personnel for the two-day event.
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