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2012 and Planet X LinksPlanet X Forecast and 2012 Survival Guide Whether we call it Planet X, Nibiru or Wormwood, most of us find ourselves becoming immersed in this topic by coincidence. One day, something odd catches our eye and piques our curiosity. Then the blinders come off, and we begin to see the harbinger signs.
Solar Activity
Latest images from the SOHO LASCO C3 solar observatory. Since its launch on 2 December 1995, The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has provided an unprecedented view of the Sun – and not just the side facing the Earth. The new funding will allow its mission to be extended from April 2007 to December 2009. Solar cycle 24, due to peak in 2010 or 2011 "looks like it's going to be one of the most intense cycles since record-keeping began almost 400 years ago," says solar physicist David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center.
Since the late 1970s, the amount of solar radiation the sun emits, during times of quiet sunspot activity, has increased by nearly .05 percent per decade, according to a NASA funded study.
Building up a detailed picture of how the Sun's output varies over time will help determine how much (if any) of the global warming presently affecting the Earth is caused by long-term changes to the Sun.
The Maya were talented astronomers, religiously intense in their observations of the sun, moon and planets. Now, new research shows that something in the heavens may have influenced their culture and ultimately helped bring about their demise.
At 21:51 UT, Monday 2 April 2001, active region 9393 unleashed a major solar flare. Now reclassified as at least an X20, it appears to be the biggest X-ray flare on record, most likely bigger than the one on 16 August 1989, also an X20 flare, and definitely more powerful than the famous 6 March 1989 flare which was related to the disruption of the power grids in Canada.
… word came from the SEC that their best estimate was X28, with a peak around 19:50 UT. Although the exact number will likely be debated for some time, it is now official: We have a new #1 X-ray flare for the record books.
April 13, 2007 -- Due to an anomaly on the GOES 12 X-ray Sensor (XRS) SEC has changed its Primary and Secondary X-ray satellite designations to GOES 11 and GOES 10. (Archived to GOES Satellite Data at the Space Weather Prediction Center site.) On July 31st 2006, a tiny sunspot was born. It popped up from the sun's interior, floated around a bit, and vanished again in a few hours. On the sun this sort of thing happens all the time and, ordinarily, it wouldn't be worth mentioning. But this sunspot was special: It was backward. Active region 10486, already under close scrutiny by several instruments on SOHO and other satellites, as well as numerous ground observatories, started up a spectacular two-part show in the morning on Tuesday 28 October 2003.
Planet Mercury
Giuseppe Colombo helped NASA go to Mercury. Now it's his turn. The Italian mathematician, who died in 1984, performed the orbital calculations that allowed the Mariner 10 spacecraft to visit Mercury, the innermost planet. In his honor, the European Space Agency (ESA) has named a craft planned for a trip to the rocky planet BepiColombo. (Note: You must temporarily allow popups to view this page.)
Planet Venus
MENLO PARK, Calif.– SRI International, a leading research institute based in Silicon Valley, reported the first observation of visible light emitted by oxygen atoms in the night-side airglow (“nightglow”) of Venus.
Astronomers observing the night side of Venus were surprised to find emissions from oxygen atoms as strong as those from aurora in the Earth's atmosphere. The discovery is puzzling because the Venusian atmosphere is very different to our own - it contains very little oxygen and is dominated by carbon dioxide.
One of our neighbouring planets can still pack a few surprises, it seems. Using satellite data, an international team of researchers has found that Venus sports a giant, ion-packed tail that stretches almost far enough to tickle the Earth when the two planets are in line with the Sun.
Planet Mars
The Mars Global Surveyor magnetic fields investigation provides fast vector measurements of the Martian magnetic field over a wide dynamic range.
This website presents data from the TES instrument at Mars, as well as an introduction to infrared spectroscopy and access to the Spectral Library at Arizona State University.
Martian Dust Storm Activity for the June 17 - August 26, 2001 period, showing a storm that enveloped the entire red planet August 7, 2003: It's not every day you get to watch a planetary ice cap vanish, but this month you can. All you need are clear skies, a backyard telescope, and a sky map leading to Mars.
The Valles Marineris is a system of canyons located just south of the Martian equator. The system is about 4000 km long, and, if on earth, would extend all the way across the United States.
The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the grand valley extends over 3,000 kilometers long, spans as much as 600 kilometers across, and delves as much as 8 kilometers deep.
Planet JupiterImage of Jupiter emitting X-rays at the poles.
San Antonio, Tex. -- A pulsating hot spot of X-rays has been discovered in the polar regions of Jupiter's upper atmosphere by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Previous theories cannot explain either the pulsations or the location of the hot spot, prompting scientists to search for a new process to produce Jupiter's X-rays. The two biggest planets in our Solar System, Jupiter and Saturn, seem to have a lot in common. They are both "gas giants," composed mostly of hydrogen and helium. Each has a long list of moons and a series of rings. Their solar orbits are side by side.
Planet Uranus
If springtime on Earth were anything like it will be on Uranus, we would be experiencing waves of massive storms, each one covering the country from Kansas to New York, with temperatures of 300 degrees below zero.
If springtime on Earth were anything like it will be on Uranus, we would be experiencing waves of massive storms, each one covering the country from Kansas to New York, with temperatures of 300 degrees below zero.
1.29 Completed WF/PC-2 8634 (Atmospheric Variability on Uranus and Neptune)
Planet Neptune
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- We're not the only ones experiencing global warming. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher has reported that observations obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based instruments reveal that Neptune's largest moon, Triton, seems to have heated up significantly since the Voyager space probe visited it in 1989.
Observations obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based instruments reveal that Neptune's largest moon, Triton, seems to have heated up significantly since the Voyager spacecraft visited it in 1989.
Dwarf Planet Pluto
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-- Pluto is undergoing global warming, as evidenced by a three-fold increase in the planet's atmospheric pressure during the past 14 years, a team of astronomers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Williams College, the University of Hawaii, Lowell Observatory and Cornell University announced in a press conference today at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's (AAS) Division for Planetary Sciences in Birmingham, AL.
Related Astronomy
In October 1994, Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz reported their discovery of a large planet (about half the mass of Jupiter) orbiting the star 51 Pegasi. American astronomers Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler of San Francisco State University verified the discovery.
Deep Space 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on October 24, 1998. During a highly successful primary mission, it tested 12 advanced, high-risk technologies in space. In an extremely successful extended mission, it encountered Comet Borrelly and returned the best images and other science data ever from a comet. During its fully successful hyperextended mission, it conducted further technology tests.
Alternative Science Links
If you've been monitoring the SOHO images for the past few weeks (a pretty safe assumuption ;-J) you've probably noted that many of the larger prominences, from the south solar pole, are repeatedly being deflected to the right of the field-of-view at roughly a minus 15 degree down-angle.
… the marked, simultaneous hyperdimensional weather changes David Wilcock and I have been pointing out all across the solar system … have now come home … to manifest as visible signatures in the Earth’s largest and most destructive weather systems.
The entire solar system - not just our one small planet -- is currently undergoing profound, never-before-seen physical changes. This paper will address and scientifically document a wide variety of significant examples, drawing from a host of published mainstream sources.
The significant – nay, unprecedented -- weather changes, currently alarming millions here on Earth, are ultimately part of an overall, mysterious transformation that is affecting the Sun, a number of other planets and many of their satellites… all across the solar system.
In the space immediately surrounding Saturn, the planet’s own tube-shaped (toroidal) cloud of plasma energy (similar to that lying along the orbit of Jupiter’s moon, Io) became 1000% denser than expected between 1981 and 1993… truly a stunning change for only twelve years’ time, exactly like the energetic increases we are seeing with Jupiter. | ||||
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Scientists Predict Big Solar Cycle, Science@NASA
