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chilambalam2013 — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:13:06 GMT

Dec. 14, 2007: The solar physics community is abuzz this week.
No, there haven't been any great eruptions or solar storms.
The source of the excitement is a modest knot of magnetism that popped over the sun's eastern limb
on Dec. 11th, pictured below in a pair of images from the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).

It may not look like much, but "this patch of magnetism could be a sign of the next solar cycle,"
says solar physicist David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/14dec_excitement.htm?list908983

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Science Community Prepares Safety Services and Citizens for Coming Solar Cycle.......

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:56:21 GMT

From Earth Changes TV newsletter:

Several reports, analysis, and latest research statistics have been released over the last 7 days telling us of the coming solar cycle and its potential damaging consequences.

It is known as Cycle 24 and is expected to be as much as 50% stronger than its predecessor. Most solar scientists agree Cycle 24 began on July 1st 2006 when the first sunspot distributed a 'reverse' magnetic field. Over the last several months, the sunspot and solar activity have been extremely mild. This is known as 'solar minimum'. From this point on, solar activity will begin to ramp up with more significant activity becoming noticeable by the end of this year.

To present a frame work of just what "50% stronger" might look like, lets go back to Cycle 23. In this cycle we witnessed sunspot counts into the 400's. The prediction for Cycle 23's 'apex' or maximum issued by NASA was 150. The count had more than doubled. We also witnessed the largest solar flare every recorded on November 4th 2003 know as the "Halloween Flare". This solar flare and following CME was so large, it literally pegged the needles on all gages. It buried all the instruments which measure magnetic flux and charged particles. It literally shocked the science community.

At the time, the measuring instruments to measure the strength of a solar flare/CME and its effect on our (Earth's) magnetic field only went to 9. Until this day, an X-9 was the largest flare recorded. On November 4th 2003 a solar flare and following CME (coronal mass ejection) exploded just as it began rotating over the western limb of the Sun. If it had been just 48 to 72 hours earlier, the flare would have Earth directed and we would have experienced a direct hit. The strength of this event measured an X-45, of which such strength had never been witnessed or anticipated. Even to this day we can only speculate the damage it would have caused to our power grids, satellites, GPS, and any number of devices which depend of communication or directional satellites.

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Cosmic Consciousness

chilambalam2013 — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:19:21 GMT

a message from Valum Votan

http://blip.tv/file/78752/

love
Lucia

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Three Items: Water on Mars; Two Asteroids Hit Mars within Last 6 Years; New X6-Class and two M-Class Flares with More Likely

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:42:59 GMT

Info from Earth Changes TV

NASA held a press conference today at 1 PM (Eastern). The panel disclosed there is “current” water flow on Mars. Of course this is no surprise to many of us including me. I have been convinced of this over related evidence beginning six years ago. But what really grabbed my attention was their second announcement which they appeared to kind of sneak in there.

The second announcement was photo evidence of two (2) asteroid impacts within the last six years. But there is more---- The area of photographic coverage was only 5% of the planet (Mars). This might suggest several more impacts have occurred. Why is this important? One reason is one of the craters measured suggest the asteroid was 3 to 4 meters wide. That is approximately 13 feet wide. This gives an impact of a 20 kilometer atomic bomb. This was the size of the American atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan during World War II.

Questions: Is Earth more at risk to asteroid impact than originally thought? Is Mars simply more prone to impacts due to orbital location? What percentage of impact avoidance is due to Earth’s much denser atmosphere than Mars? So much to learn from this new cutting edge information.

Solar Changes................................................'
New X6-Class Flare and Two More M-Class Flare Within 24 Hours – More Likely to Come

Just a few hours ago, a new X6-Class flare has fired off from new sunspot region 930. Also, two new M-Class flares have set off within the last 24 hours. One of which almost reached X-Class level. One came from region 929, the other appears to have come from “new” sunspot region 930. Yesterdays X9-Class flare was from sunspot region 929 and which shows potential for being highly active for the next several days. Now we have “new” sunspot region 930 just now coming around the eastern limb of the Sun, and is showing to be even more potent than 929.

X-Class and Two M-Class Flares: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/xray_5mBL.html

Kp Index (geomagnetic storms): http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html

Solar Photo: http://www.earthchangestv.com/images/sunspot_930_12-06-06.jpg

What has the attention of the solar science community is “how early these large flares have begun within solar ‘Cycle 24’”. Solar Cycle 24 began only three months ago and is at “solar minimum”. This meaning we should see very little solar activity for a least another several months. But as you can see this is not the case.

You might remember Dr. Mausumi Dikpati NASA scientist who is one of six scientists who sits on the NASA panel which determines each solar cycle. Dr. Dikpati predicted Cycle 24 will be as much as 50% stronger than Cycle 23. Well, I guess we can see evidence of that already occurring.

Equation:

Sunspots => Solar Flares => Magnetic Field Shift => Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents => Extreme Weather and Human Disruption (mitch battros)

Remember, it is my hypothesis that not only is there a proven connection of a “direct and immediate” causal effect between solar weather and Earth’s weather i.e. extreme weather, tornadoes, hurricanes, storms; but the Sun and its emitting of ‘charge particles’ has an effect on humans in the way of emotional and physical symptoms.

See Article: From Human to Higher Human http://www.earthchangestv.com/artman/publish/article_15703.php

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Solar Equation

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:08:28 GMT

Equation:

Sunspots => Solar Flares => Magnetic Field Shift => Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents => Extreme Weather and Human Disruption => Emotional Instability => Physical Uncomfortability =>

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Rainbow Clouds in Orlando

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:04:39 GMT

Earlier this week I was watching the local news here in Colorado (Fox 31) when I saw some of the most amazing atmospheric anomilies I have ever seen. In Orlando there were Rainbow Clouds over the city that looked like UFOs or "ships". The "clouds" were not faint colored clouds but the pictures showed the most dense form of a rainbow I have ever seen. They looked like someone had taken a rainbow and wrapped it around a MerKaBa field as it was spinning out. I wrote an email to the news channel and did many searches on the net trying to find more info on these "clouds" with no response from the news and no luck on net searches. If you have any info on this please let me know. As I understand that these type of anomilies will be more and more frequent the closer we get to 2012 because of the "Noospheric discharge" of the Earth's Rainbow Brain. As the magnetic particles enter the atmosphere we are being bombarded more and more with solar emmenations and magnetic discharges which creates the AuroraBroealis and colors in the sky over the magnetic poles. Anomilies like the rainbow clouds are the direct manifestation of these magnetic particles being spread over the earth in places other than the poles, the overpouring of light and information coming in from the galactic center through our sun. The northern and southern poles are reversing which will continue to create more and more rainbow & atmospheric anomilies. I will keep you posted if I find out anything else on Orlando's Rainbow Clouds.

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Current Geomagnetic Storm Points to Gamma Ray Burst

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:42:38 GMT

There were at least four major peaks of emission. The first three were quite bright and had a lot of sub-peaks in them. They lasted for 20, 17, and 25 seconds with an 8 second peak between the first and second peaks (the second and third overlap slightly). A fourth, weaker, peak started about 80 seconds after the initial trigger as well, and faded very slowly, lasting about 820 seconds. The Suzaku satellite also detected this burst, with similar results.

A very bright X-ray afterglow was seen by Swift, in fact, one of the brightest seen since launch!

An extremely bright optical afterglow was detected as well-- 195 seconds after the burst, the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope on board Swift measured a visual magnitude of 12.8! This makes the afterglow of GRB061007A one of the brightest ever detected; it would have been easily seen through most backyard telescopes!

ROTSE-II also saw the bright afterglow 26.4 seconds after the Swift trigger, at an unfiltered magnitude of 13.6 (the afterglow image displayed is from ROTSE). Note that this is fainter than Swift's magnitude determination, even though ROTSE saw the burst before Swift did. This means the afterglow was caught while it was still getting brighter, which is *extremely* rare. This brightening has been confirmed by astronomers using the 2m Faulkes Telescope South in Australia. They determine the afterglow was *ten times brighter* 142 seconds after the burst, compared to 26 seconds after. By 400 seconds after the burst, the afterglow was seen to be fading by Swift.

Two teams of astronomers, one using the Magellan Clay telescope in Chile, and the other using the Very Large Telescope also in Chile, both found a redshift for this burst of 1.26. This corresponds to a distance of 8.7 billion light years.

Kp Index (Storm): http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html

Equation:

Sunspots => Solar Flares => Magnetic Field Shift => Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents => Extreme Weather and Human Disruption (mitch battros)

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Cycle 24, letting us know it's here!

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 20:06:16 GMT

Solar activity is beginning to spark up a bit. Sunspot region 913 kicked up a low level CME (coronal mass ejection) setting off a moderate geomagnetic storm. Interesting to note it is only three weeks into the new cycle and already see solar activity one would see at the end of the first year.

NASA scientist Dr. Mausumi Dikpati, predicted Cycle 24 will be 50% stronger than its predecessor. The current solar cycle will begin to ramp-up in 2007 hitting its "apex" (maximum) in 2011/2012. Hmmm, just at the time the Mayan Calendar ends---

Sunspot region 903: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/eit_284/512/

Geomagnetic Storm (Kp Index): http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html

Solar Equation: Sunspots => Solar Flares => Magnetic Field Shift => Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents => Extreme Weather and Human Disruption,

---- information shared by Mitch Battros

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SunSpot activity on August 27th

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:30:43 GMT

This is old news already but I felt it should be posted as we can see the affects of this activity with the tropical depression/hurricane that just hit the east coast.
Stay Tuned!!!!.........

Sunspot region 905 has produced some C-class flares, but it is the ‘coronal hole’ associated with this region which has set off a geomagnetic storm. Just two hours ago, this storm event has hit the Earth’s magnetic field.

Coronal Hole: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/sxi/current_sxi_4MKcorona.png

Region 905 continues to have the potential for an M-Class flare. The recent storm is measured a 5 on a scale of 0 to 9 and is classified as ‘moderate’. However, if this sunspot region continues to be active or escalate, it could become strong enough to affect current tropical storms, hurricanes, and initiate tornadoes, straight-line winds, micro-burst, and wind-shears. (see Equation)

Kp Index (geomagnetic storm): http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html

Equation:
Sunspots => Solar Flares => Magnetic Field Shift => Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents => Extreme Weather and Human Disruption (mitch battros)

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Hurricane ‘Ernesto’ Now Tropical Storm, But for How Long?

As noted above, if solar activity continues or increases, there will be a strong likelihood for 'Ernesto' to regain hurricane strength. As for now, 'Ernesto' has weakened to a tropical storm but is still bringing torrential rains to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

At 5 PM (2100 UTC) a hurricane watch is issued for all of the Florida Keys from Ocean Reef to the Dry Tortugas. A hurricane watch means that hurricane conditions are possible within the watch area---general within 36 hours.

'Ernesto' is moving toward the northwest near 8 mph and this general motion is expected to continue for the next 24 hours. On this track the center will move away from southwestern Haiti tonight, and be near the southern coast of eastern Cuba by Monday morning.

Reports from an Air Force hurricane hunter plane, indicates the maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 60 mph with higher gusts. 'Ernesto' is forecast to strengthen after it moves away from southwestern Haiti and it could regain hurricane status before it reaches the south coast of eastern Cuba tomorrow morning. Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 115 miles from the center.

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Solar storms effects

chilambalam2013 — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:03:19 GMT

some infos here :

http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=sun_storm

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New Solar Cycle Detected, Shift Happens

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:46:14 GMT

On July 31st, a small sunspot was viewed and recorded. This finding which shows the first sunspot in ‘magnetic reverse’, suggest the ushering in of a new solar cycle. This one would be “Cycle 24”. Solar physicists have known that sunspot magnetic fields reverse polarity from cycle to cycle. North becomes South and South becomes North.

David Hathaway, a solar physicist at the Marshall Space Flight in Huntsville, Alabama states "A backward sunspot is a sign that the next solar cycle is beginning." The term ‘backwards’ as used by Hathaway means the magnetic lay-lines of a sunspot(s) have reversed.

Dr. Mausumi Dikpati (research scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado) disclosed for the first time on national and international air-waves, “Cycle 24 will be up to 50% stronger than the current cycle (Cycle 23)”. Cycle 23 delivered the largest solar flare ‘ever recorded’. The November 4th 2003 solar flare was estimated to be an X-45. Up until this time, all measuring instruments stopped at X-9.

Dr. Dikpati Interview: www.earthchangestv.com/secure...487.php

Sunspots are planet-sized magnets created by the Sun's inner magnetic dynamo. Like all magnets in the Universe, sunspots have north (N) and south (S) magnetic poles. The sunspot of July 31st popped up at solar longitude 65o W, latitude 13o S. sunspots in that area are normally oriented N-S. The newcomer, however, was S-N, opposite the norm.

Scientists are still debating if this latest sunspot reversal is in fact the tale-tell sign a new cycle has begun. As we know, sunspots last several days and often survive passing through the ‘far-side’ of the Sun giving the sunspot a longer life which could last a month or more. This July 31st event only lasted three hours giving some researchers a “wait-and-see” posture.

The revving up of this new solar cycle will take several months to begin to show its true power. The “apex” or ‘maximum’ should be towards the end of 2011-2012. Yes folks, the maximum power which indicates Cycle 24’s most damaging period lands right smack in the middle of Mayan prophecy. This will certainly be quite interesting. That is---if we don’t nuke ourselves right out of existence before then.

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