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Sunspot 1117 has exploded. (Headed for earth)
Spaceweather ^ | October 26th, 2010

Posted on 10/26/2010 12:30:34 PM PDT by TaraP

BIG SUNSPOT: Sunspot group 1117 continues to grow, more than doubling in area during the past 48 hours: movie. Each of the primary dark cores in this Oct. 26th snapshot from the Solar Dynamics Observatory is fully as wide as Earth:

The sunspot's magnetic field is crackling with B- and C-class solar flares: 36-hour movie. So far, these impulsive eruptions have not hurled any substantial clouds toward Earth. A big flare would be geoeffective, however, because the sunspot is almost-squarely facing Earth. Stay tuned!


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To: WayneS

I knew it was a bad idea to put solar panels on the White Hut.


81 posted on 10/26/2010 1:21:56 PM PDT by sportutegrl (Why are they called Musketeers if they fight with swords?)
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To: WayneS

I knew it was a bad idea to put solar panels on the White Hut.


82 posted on 10/26/2010 1:22:00 PM PDT by sportutegrl (Why are they called Musketeers if they fight with swords?)
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To: WayneS

I knew it was a bad idea to put solar panels on the White Hut.


83 posted on 10/26/2010 1:22:10 PM PDT by sportutegrl (Why are they called Musketeers if they fight with swords?)
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To: sportutegrl

Triple post Fail.


84 posted on 10/26/2010 1:23:15 PM PDT by sportutegrl (Why are they called Musketeers if they fight with swords?)
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To: aruanan

That was quite an amazing paper! Thanks for sharing it.


85 posted on 10/26/2010 1:24:42 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: TaraP

If I am reading this right, it looks like the energy wave from the sun will brush past earth around Halloween or Nov 1. This would be in the first picture on the left, posted of the three.


86 posted on 10/26/2010 1:29:21 PM PDT by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: Lazamataz
Sunspots? I have some of those.
Curiously, I have asteroids.

We should stop before we get to Black Holes.

("You going to let her call you a black ho?" [Eddie - 1996)

87 posted on 10/26/2010 1:32:06 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Thanks for the beautiful wallpaper.


88 posted on 10/26/2010 1:33:18 PM PDT by mcshot (I believe he was born in Kenya - YouTube "Not Natural Born - Truth Matters")
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To: BenLurkin

Flunked the Rorschach Test, eh?............


89 posted on 10/26/2010 1:33:52 PM PDT by Red Badger (WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE GIVE MEGHAN MCCAIN A BOX OF KRISPY KREMES SO SHE'LL SHUT THE HELL UP?!)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s Indonesia’s fault.
That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.


90 posted on 10/26/2010 1:37:40 PM PDT by TexasPatriot1 ("Tyranny is defined as that which legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry" Jefferson)
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To: WayneS

Did that in #1 (VIR), damn near killed me.


91 posted on 10/26/2010 1:47:31 PM PDT by 11Bush
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To: dfwgator

Well,in that case we’re safe for at least 50 years.


92 posted on 10/26/2010 2:17:59 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: TaraP

I keep my tin foil hat on all the time so there! And I’d have my double barrel to if it hadn’t na fell overboard while I was fishin.


93 posted on 10/26/2010 2:24:08 PM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: TaraP
When beggars die there are no comets seen;

The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes - and the democrat controlled congress.

With apologies to William Shakespeare.

94 posted on 10/26/2010 2:28:23 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/01...NEVER FORGET.)
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To: steve86; Constitution Day

Though you may find some of his papers cited on some strange-looking website, he’s actually a real plasma physicist at Los Alamos. There are two or three other long papers on this out there by him. They’ve been busy this summer in field work in various places here in North America and other locations overseas.


95 posted on 10/26/2010 2:32:48 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: TruthConquers; TaraP
I agree and if I may add ... Nyahh Nyahh you missed us! ;-)

Parenthetically - that is a beautiful graphic! Thanks!

96 posted on 10/26/2010 2:49:18 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: TaraP
image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a fast-growing sunspot 1112, crackling with solar flares.


97 posted on 10/26/2010 3:20:00 PM PDT by cann
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To: TaraP

Spaceweather tends to exhaggerate solar storms and activity wheras Solarcycle24 tends to be more calming. Solar activity remains very low.


98 posted on 10/26/2010 3:21:01 PM PDT by jesseam (Been there, done that)
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To: TaraP

I feel like I’ve been hynotized. What secret command did you implant? Why do I feel like a chicken?


99 posted on 10/26/2010 3:24:42 PM PDT by bvw
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To: cann

Thank you. That is absolutely beautiful! ;-)


100 posted on 10/26/2010 4:48:34 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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