Is asteroid Tu24 causing these changes to the earth's magnetosphere? Check it out!

I was reading about asteroid Tu24 a little bit ago and went to a page that shows the earth's magnetosphere and the related data associated with it. I do not really know what I am looking at but because the data is updated in what appears to be 20 minute intervals I was able to look at the "Pressure" and "Magnetic Field" diagrams for the last few days and compare them. It appears that the "Pressure" diagram shows that the pressure of the earth's magnetosphere has increased a lot (?) recently. I was wondering if this could possibly be attributed to the asteroid Tu24.

Here is the site where you can find the updated information (home page):
www2.nict.go.jp...

And here is the part of the site where you can see the "latest images":
www2.nict.go.jp...

Here are some of the images from the site above where you can see the difference in pressure recently:
January 28, 2008 at 6:52 UT:


January 28, 2008 at 16:08 UT:


January 29, 2008 at 2:53 UT (9:53 EST):


Obviously you can see a difference but I have no clue what it means. Can someone tell me if this is just a normal cycle or if this is irregular? Also if possible please explain the "Magnetic Field" diagram. When the pressure increased earlier it looked like there was a direct corelation with the "Dens. (p/cc)" diagram. I assume that this is density and I can guess that an increase in density would create increased pressure, but what causes increased density?

This asteroid has made me more interested in this field and would appreciate any information from anyone out there. Thanks.

Mo-out

Very interesting indeed!! I seen these linked up on TU-24 post and I am VERY qurious about this myself!!

Wow look at the most recent 3:27 UT it has intenseified MUCH!! from just this post!!!

Originally posted by Chaos Lord
Very interesting indeed!! I seen these linked up on TU-24 post and I am VERY qurious about this myself!!

Darn it!!! I thought I was "on the ball" with this one but it is already in the main Tu24 thread here at ATS. I had not read it in a little while or missed them so I apologize. I am still interested nonetheless so maybe someone can explain this to me (and maybe others) either here or there I'll find it either way.

Mo-out (with tail tucked between my rock solid legs)

You MUST SHOW THE COMPARISONS!! On TU-24 POST!!

I would but I am rusty on my VB code the comparison you posted id GREAT!