[SunkenCiv]

[cont'd] I suggest that the modulation of sunspot activity, illustrated by the well-known butterfly diagram, is due to millions of bodies which have been ejected from Jupiter's Great Red Spot (-20 latitude) in recent millennia.

The differences in their orbits and the consequent modulation of the resulting impacts on the Sun are likely due to variations in the ecliptic and eccentricity, both of which follow Jupiter's period.

The difference between Jupiter's period (11.8 earth years) and the average sunspot cycle (11.3) years, and the systematic variation of sunspot latitude during a cycle, may be due to relativistic effects on their sun grazing orbits (advance of perihelion) combined with the barycentric motion of the Sun caused primarily by Jupiter.

The influx of numerous high velocity solid bodies is also consistent with the localized, non-thermal heating of the corona to millions of degrees.

Yohkoh images show only the hottest part of the corona and SOHO's ultraviolet spectra of these regions have provided clear evidence for their non-thermal nature.

These show the continually changing locations of heat deposition due to incoming bodies.

The implication of the 'Maunder Minimum' and recent studies of the sunspot cylce on climate is that powerful bursts of energetic charged particles from the Sun are a significant factor in maintaining the temperature of the Earth at its current level.

This accentuates the importance of understanding their origin, particularly when their future decline remains a possibility.

[JBR34]

This is a December 2003 article.

And borders on shakey data.

[battlecry]

Pub date is 2003. Any updates, say from STEREO?

[editor-surveyor]

>> “This accentuates the importance of understanding their origin, particularly when their future decline remains a possibility.” <<

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Definitely smells like trolling for federal dollars.

[Nateman]

The difference between the Jupiter orbit and the Sunspot cycle makes this a weak theory. You have to explain to the comet why it must add one half year to the time it falls into Sun from the fall time for the previous comet. All that mumbo jumbo about relativity and what not seems custom made to intimidate an opponent of the idea into silence.

[ExpatCanuck]

The mother ship is resting in stasis in the core of the sun until the time to revive the occupants arrives. Periodic releases of waste matter from the life support systems are the cause of the sunspot activity.

[Hebrews 11:6]

The sun is still so young, it’s complexion hasn’t yet cleared.

[Steve Van Doorn]

You post this after the comet hit the sun and NASA claims the flare was a coincidence. Was this post a coincidence?

Or are you hinting that the flare reacts instantly to an impact not as NASA states.

[ConservativeMind]

I suggest that the modulation of sunspot activity, illustrated by the well-known butterfly diagram, is due to millions of bodies which have been ejected from Jupiter's Great Red Spot (-20 latitude) in recent millennia.

Surely, this is a joke, right? What sort of ANYTHING is being “ejected” from Jupiter, let alone from its “red spot”?

I've never heard of such a thing before.