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TextJoint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity SDF Number 023 Issued at 2200Z on 23 Jan 2012 IA. Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity from 22/2100Z to 23/2100Z: Solar activity reached high levels. Region 1402 (N28W36) produced a long-duration M8/2b flare at 23/0359Z. Associated with this event were multi-frequency radio emissions spanning 25 MHz through 15.4 GHz including a 5100 sfu Tenflare. SOHO/LASCO observed an asymmetric, full-halo CME, first observed in C2 imagery at 27/0412Z as a bright halo over the northern hemisphere. Model output suggests potential Earth impact midday on 24 January. Region 1402 showed some umbral separation in the large leader spot. Region 1401 (N16W39) produced a C1/Sf at 23/2011Z. The remainder of the disk was quiet and stable.
Why do you keep posting about this M8 flare
And is the beginning of the year.
This is the strongest proton event in about 7 years.
Originally posted by SunnyDee
I'd like to hear more about Jupiter swapping poles. tells more, thanks.
Got a link also?
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by diamondsmith
You have presented no evidence to suggest this is the case. Furthermore, you have not even proven a connection between geomagnetic pole reversals and the solar maximum. Even if you could prove that it in no way suggests that a geomagnetic pole reversal would occur this year seeing as how the solar maximum will not occur until next year and it will be the weakest one we've seen since 1928. It's also worth mentioning once again that geomagnetic pole reversals occur over thousands of years. They don't occur all of a sudden. So, your baseless claim that a geomagnetic pole reversal will occur this year flies in the face of science.
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by diamondsmith
Well looking at solar proton events it looks like the greatest effect they have is potentially causing ionization of the ionosphere which can disrupt radio transmissions that propagate through the ionosphere. They aren't even capable of producing geomagnetic storms. So once again, what is your point with all of this?
Originally posted by chr0naut
He is probably referring to the Time Cube
Originally posted by jonnywhite
reply to post by diamondsmith
We don't know how to live. We don't know how to care. We don't connect with animals anymore. We're ever indulgent monster consumers. Nature won't allow us to be this way for long.
Everyone knows it but they won't say it. They'll only admit it when it's too late.
Everything we have is going to be taken away from us until we learn to be true to ourselves.
-I- don't want the world to end. It's the combined feeling of all humanity. It's not my doing.edit on 23-1-2012 by jonnywhite because: (no reason given)
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TextA solar eruption is followed by a one-two-three punch, said Antti Pulkkinen, a physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and Catholic University. 'The whole volume of space between here and Jupiter is just filled with protons and you just don't get rid of them like that' Doug Biesecker, physicist First comes electromagnetic radiation, followed by radiation in the form of protons. Then, finally the coronal mass ejection - that's the plasma from the sun itself - hits. Usually that travels at about 1 or 2 million miles per hour, but this storm is particularly speedy and is shooting out at 4 million miles per hour, Mr Biesecker said. Plasma causes much of the noticeable problems on Earth, such as electrical grid outages. In 1989, a solar storm caused a massive blackout in Quebec. It can also pull the northern lights further south. But this coronal mass ejection seems likely to be only moderate, with a chance for becoming strong, Mr Biesecker said. The worst of the storm is likely to go north of Earth. Flame-like: This image shows an M3.2 solar flare captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. An earth-directed coronal mass ejection - plasma from the sun - was associated with the solar flare And unlike last October, when a freak solar storm caused auroras to be seen as far south as Alabama, the northern lights aren't likely to dip too far south this time, Mr Biesecker said. Parts of New England, upstate New York, northern Michigan, Montana and the Pacific Northwest could see an aurora but not until Tuesday evening, he said. 'We haven't had anything like this for a number of years. It's kind of special' Antti Pulkkinen For the past several years the sun had been quiet. Part of that was the normal calm part of the sun's 11-year cycle of activity. Last year, scientists started to speculate that the sun was going into an unusually quiet cycle that seems to happen maybe once a century or so. Now that super-quiet cycle doesn't seem as likely, Mr Biesecker said. Scientists watching the sun with a new NASA satellite launched in 2010 - during the sun's quiet period - are excited. ‘We haven't had anything like this for a number of years,’ Mr Pulkkinen said. ‘It's kind of special.’ See video here Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk... qqIL85