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Sun's protective 'bubble' is shrinking
The Telegraph ^
| 10/19/2008
| Richard Gray
Posted on 10/18/2008 6:05:05 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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To: bruinbirdman
Last line of the article:
““It is likely that there are natural variations in solar wind pressure and over time it will either stabilise or start going back up.”
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
I hate flux. The whole concept just annoys the heck out of me. Del phi del Q, bah.
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10/19/2008 9:48:04 AM PDT
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: cripplecreek
I’d place money on “It’s happened before and it will happen again.”
To: bruinbirdman
NASA's STEREO satellite captured the first images ever of a collision between a solar "hurricane", called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and a comet on April 4, 2007. The collision caused the complete detachment of the comet's plasma tail. Comets are icy leftovers from the solar system's formation billions of years ago. They usually hang out in the cold, distant regions of the solar system, but occasionally a gravitational tug from a planet, another comet, or even a nearby star sends them into the inner solar system. Once there, the sun's heat and radiation vaporizes gas and dust from the comet, forming its tail. Comets typically have two tails, one made of dust and a fainter one made of electrically conducting gas, called plasma. (NASA/STEREO)
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posted on
10/19/2008 12:48:11 PM PDT
by
TenthAmendmentChampion
(Lord please bless our nation with John McCain as president and Sarah Palin as Vice President! Amen.)
To: TenthAmendmentChampion
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
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posted on
10/19/2008 1:47:00 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
To: xcamel; steelyourfaith
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posted on
10/19/2008 6:43:24 PM PDT
by
TenthAmendmentChampion
(Lord please bless our nation with John McCain as president and Sarah Palin as Vice President! Amen.)
To: bruinbirdman
Sun's protective 'bubble' is shrinking
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posted on
10/19/2008 6:46:45 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(I hate Illinois Marxists)
To: bruinbirdman
Wow, I’d better get my carbon offset fees mailed in! It’s clear that our earth’s untamed pollution has far reaching effects, now we’ve reduced the sun’s shields! Oh, Leo and algore were right! /sarc
To: bruinbirdman
will be launched from an aircraft on Sunday on a Pegasus rocket into an orbit 150,000 miles above the Earth Isn't Pegasus the satellite killer designed for the F-14? Wow it can put a bird up 150,000 miles, that puts geostationary birds well within range. Take that Chi-Coms.
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posted on
10/19/2008 7:37:49 PM PDT
by
fella
(.He that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough." Pv.28:19')
To: omni-scientist
make it our collective responsibility to make the appropriate sacrifices.Will throwing some virgins into a volcano work?
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posted on
10/19/2008 7:42:22 PM PDT
by
fella
(.He that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough." Pv.28:19')
To: TenthAmendmentChampion
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posted on
10/20/2008 10:20:50 AM PDT
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FReepaholic
(Palin's hot and she has a birth certificate.)
To: fella
They had to design a special booster to bring IBEX to that high orbit. Plus, IBEX is a fairly small payload, so it doesn’t take much oomph to get that high.
Also, the orbit is fairly elliptical, so for a short time it zooms in much closer than 150K miles before heading out again.
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10/21/2008 3:31:23 PM PDT
by
MikeD
(We live in a world where babies are like velveteen rabbits that only become real if they are loved.)
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