Posted on 03/12/2019 6:47:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
An intense blast of high-energy protons from the Sun pummelled the Earth in about 660 BC and left a distinct record of cosmogenic nuclei in the Greenland ice sheet. The discovery was made by an international team of scientists who say the event was one most powerful solar storms known to have struck Earth.
The team calculates that the storm was about ten times more intense than any event that has occurred in the past 70 years. “If that solar storm had occurred today, it could have had severe effects on our hi-tech society”, says Raimund Muscheler of Sweden’s University of Lund, who designed the study.
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n 2017, some of the team members discovered a peak of carbon-14 at about 660 BC in oak tree rings. Similar peaks are associated with intense solar storms believed to have occurred more recently in the years 775 and 994. However, the carbon-14 peak at 660 BC is not as distinct as peaks associated with the later events and could be the result of an increase in cosmic rays entering the atmosphere rather than solar protons.
To clarify the situation, Muscheler and colleagues looked at beryllium-10 abundance in ice cores and found peaks at around 660 BC in ice from both the North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP) and the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP). A peak in the abundance of chlorine-36 – another isotope produced by solar protons – was also spotted in the GRIP data.
According to the team, the storm in 660 BC was comparable to the 775 event, which is the strongest solar storm known to date. Furthermore, the ancient storm was ten times more intense than any solar storm that has occurred over the past 70 years – including storms that have disrupted electricity grids and telecommunications.
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Can’t get enough OMGWAAGTD stuff.
Now that’s some damn climate changer, right there.
“The sun pummeled the earth”
Big bully.
Pick on someone your own size!
Like Joy Behar’s head!
Carrington Event?
I was just about to post this... Thank you. :)
Knocked out all their cell phones fer sure.
Do any of these events approximate with known Biblical events?
Bigger
Oh man! That was a HUGE event!
Sorry about that... I viewed the image first and it wasn’t that big. lol
Not by traditional dating. Between Elijah and Isaiah.
660 BC
“Hey, everybody, check it out! I’ve invented a rudimentary microprocessor...ZOT!!!”
“Never mind.”
Dinosaurs did not have cell phones, integrated circuits, or transistors back then, so EMP did not affect them like it will on snowflakes with no survival skills.
Don’t worry a bit. The sun is dying out so no more solar flares.
BAD ice storms! BAD.
BAD solar storms! BAD.
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