Pluto at its brightest?

I've just received one of the most ridiculous chain text messages. It was forwarded to me by my aunt who I've already said is rather ignorant of things on science and technology. (Though come to think of it, she lent me her book about the night sky when I was in grade school.) The text message goes like this:

Planet Pluto will be brightest in the night sky starting July. It will look as large as the fullmoon to the naked eye.

It will culminate on July 27 when Pluto is 34.56M miles near earth.

Be sure to watch the sky on July 27 at 12:30am. It will look like the earth has 2 moons.

The next time Pluto may come this close will be on year 2287.

Share this with ur loved ones n friends. No one alive today will ever see it again.

Isn't that the stupidest thing? Anyone with grade school knowledge of astronomy will know that Pluto is the farthest planet--oop, one of the farthest minor or dwarf planets--in the solar system. I don't think you can see it with the naked eye; one will need a good-sized telescope to see it. And even then, it would still look like a "star" instead of a disc. Even Venus, Jupiter or Saturn don't appear as discs to the naked eye but rather as "stars", albeit bright ones, and certainly not as large as a full moon even at their smallest distance from earth. Hmmm... that distance from Earth thing doesn't sound right either. Sounds more like the distance between Mars and Earth.

Anyway, it just goes to show how one simply can't believe all that stuff being forwarded through email or text messaging. One thing's for sure: I'm certainly not going to make a fool out of myself by forwarding that chain text message about Pluto to my "loved ones n friends".

P.S.
A horrible thought just came to me. What if somebody did go out to check the night sky on 27 July, see the full moon then (near full moon at least--full moon will be on the 30th) and think it was Pluto?