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What Will Happen When the Sun’s Magnetic Poles Reverse?
universetoday.com ^
| August 6, 2013
| by Nancy Atkinson on
Posted on 08/06/2013 4:25:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The flip-flopping of the Suns magnetic field takes place at the peak of each solar activity cycle when the Suns internal magnetic dynamo reorients itself. When the field reversal happens, the magnetic field weakens, then dies down to zero before emerging again with a reversed polarity.
While this is not a catastrophic event, the reversal will have effects, said solar physicist Todd Hoeksema, the director of Stanford Universitys Wilcox Solar Observatory, who monitors the Suns polar magnetic fields. This change will have ripple effects throughout the Solar System, he said.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; maunderminimum
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To: BenLurkin; Jim Robinson; John Robinson; Admin Moderator
Uh-oh! UH-OH!!! Guess what’s happening aga
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
can we re-reverse the poles?
To: morphing libertarian
Only with massive carbon taxes.
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08/07/2013 1:06:42 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Just send me a check for whatever Al Gore is getting.
To: Menehune56
These periods are called chrons. The time spans of chrons are randomly distributed with most being between 0.1 and 1 million years[citation needed] with an average of 450,000 years. Most reversals are estimated to take between 1,000 and 10,000 years. The latest one, the BrunhesMatuyama reversal, occurred 780,000 years ago. However,a study published in 2012 by a group from the German Research Center for Geosciences suggests that a brief complete reversal occurred only 41,000 years ago during the last glacial period. The reversal lasted only about 440 years with the actual change of polarity lasting around 250 years.Al Gore's concerned... he wants US taxes raised and money sent to corrupt African leaders who will then 'kickback' cash to special creepy UN guys... If we don't do this soon, we're all gonna die...
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GOPJ
(Sob stories make bad law...)
To: BenLurkin
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CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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