Maybe the sun is pondering who to vote for in November...
Sounds like a good time to invest in greenhouses. Learn to grow your own food.
I knew it, we’re all going to die.
So, the leftist GWarming crowd is going to encourage capitalism and burning more fossil fuels now to keep the earth from cooling?
Algore.......paging algore.....please pick up the white courtesy phone............
And in related news, the UN Council on Feminism has announced that the Sun will now be referred to as the Daughter.
What idiot goofballs think the sun has anything to do with the warmth of our planet? Just a bunch of Global Warming Deniers. Move on folks, we already have consensus.
I’m glad I have a gas guzzling 4 wheel drivin’ SUV so I can drive through the ice and snow safely!
Oh for pete’s sake. Are we gonna freeze or cook!! Someone make up our minds.
The Strange Case of the Iron SunIn the late 1960s, chemist Oliver Manuel made a small but staggering discovery about meteorites. He noticed that the abundances of certain elements in meteorites were distinctly different from those in the Earth and much of the solar system. This observation spurred research showing that our solar system probably formed from material generated in many different stars. For Manuel, it also spawned a radical theory about the origins of our solar system, which he has doggedly pursued for forty years. Nearly all astronomers agree that the Sun and the rest of the planets formed from an amorphous cloud of gas and dust 4.6 billion years ago. But Manuel argues, based on his compositional data, that the solar system was created by a dramatic stellar explosion--a supernova--and that the iron-encased remnant of the progenitor star still sits at the center of the Sun. [*]
by Solana PyneSun Is Mostly Iron, Not Hydrogen, Professor Says[Dr. Oliver] Manuel, a professor of nuclear chemistry at the University of Missouri-Rolla, claims that hydrogen fusion creates some of the sun's heat, as hydrogen -- the lightest of all elements -- moves to the sun's surface. But most of the heat comes from the core of an exploded supernova that continues to generate energy within the iron-rich interior of the sun, Manuel says... Manuel says the solar system was born catastrophically out of a supernova -- a theory that goes against the widely-held belief among astrophysicists that the sun and planets were formed 4.5 billion years ago in a relatively ambiguous cloud of interstellar dust. Iron and the heavy element known as xenon are at the center of Manuel's efforts to change the way people think about the solar system's origins... Analyses of meteorites reveal that all primordial helium is accompanied by "strange xenon," he says, adding that both helium and strange xenon came from the outer layer of the supernova that created the solar system. Helium and strange xenon are also seen together in Jupiter... Data from NASA's Galileo probe of Jupiter's helium-rich atmosphere in 1996 reveals traces of strange xenon gases -- solid evidence against the conventional model of the solar system's creation, Manuel says... The strange xenon is enriched in isotopes that are made when a supernova explodes, the researchers reported, and could not be produced within meteorites... Based on these findings, they concluded that the solar system formed directly from the debris of a single supernova, and the sun formed on the supernova's collapsed core... This is why the outer planets consist mostly of hydrogen, helium and other light elements, and the inner planets are made of heavier elements like iron, sulfur and silicon, Manuel says. [*]
Science News
January 9, 2002
University Of Missouri-Rolla
The Sun: A Great Ball of Iron?
Science Daily
Posted on 07/18/2002 2:33:32 AM EDT by per loin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/718067/posts
Is Iron Causing All the Flares?
Universe Today | 11/18/03
Posted on 11/19/2003 12:15:52 PM EST by LibWhacker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1024961/posts
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