NASA Satellite Observes Mysterious Earth Energy
Starmail - 26. Feb, 08:40
Phaenomene
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Huge 'star-quake' rocks Milky Way
Interesting - notice it was the date. FYI - Anna
Begin forwarded message:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4278005.stm
Last Updated: Friday, 18 February, 2005, 19:10 GMT
Huge 'star-quake' rocks Milky Way
SGR 1806-20 has intense magnetic fields
Astronomers say they have been stunned by the amount of energy released in a star explosion on the far side of our galaxy, 50,000 light-years away.
The flash of radiation on 27 December was so powerful that it bounced off the Moon and lit up the Earth's atmosphere.
The blast occurred on the surface of an exotic kind of star - a super-magnetic neutron star called SGR 1806-20.
If the explosion had been within just 10 light-years, Earth could have suffered a mass extinction, it is said.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime event
Dr Rob Fender, Southampton University
"We figure that it's probably the biggest explosion observed by humans within our galaxy since Johannes Kepler saw his supernova in 1604," Dr Rob Fender, of Southampton University, UK, told the BBC News website.
One calculation has the giant flare on SGR 1806-20 unleashing about 10,000 trillion trillion trillion watts.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime event. We have observed an object only 20km across, on the other side of our galaxy, releasing more energy in a 10th of a second than the Sun emits in 100,000 years," said Dr Fender.
Fast turn
The event overwhelmed detectors on space-borne telescopes, such as the recently launched Swift observatory.
This facility was put above the Earth to detect and analyse gamma-ray bursts - very intense but fleeting flashes of radiation.
The giant flare it and other instruments caught in December has left scientists scrabbling for superlatives.
Swift moved quickly to track down the source of the gamma-rays
Twenty institutes from around the world have joined the investigation and two teams are to report their findings in a forthcoming issue of the journal Nature.
The light detected from the giant flare was far brighter in gamma-rays than visible light or X-rays.
Research teams say the event can be traced to the magnetar SGR 1806-20.
This remarkable super-dense object is a neutron star - it is composed entirely of neutrons and is the remnant collapsed core of a once giant star.
Now, though, this remnant is just 20km across and spins so fast it completes one revolution every 7.5 seconds.
"It has this super-strong magnetic field and this produces some kind of structure which has undergone a rearrangement - it's an event that is sometimes characterised as a 'star-quake', a neutron star equivalent of an earthquake," explained Dr Fender.
"It's the only possible way we can think of releasing so much energy."
Continued glow
SGR 1806-20 is sited in the southern constellation Sagittarius. Its distance puts it beyond the centre of the Milky Way and a safe distance from Earth.
"Had this happened within 10 light-years of us, it would have severely damaged our atmosphere and would possibly have triggered a mass extinction," said Dr Bryan Gaensler, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who is the lead author on one of the forthcoming Nature papers.
"Fortunately there are no magnetars anywhere near us."
The initial burst of high-energy radiation subsided quickly but there continues to be an afterglow at longer radio wavelengths.
This radio emission persists as the shockwave from the explosion moves out through space, ploughing through nearby gas and exciting matter to extraordinary energies.
"We may go on observing this radio source for much of this year," Dr Fender said.
This work is being done at several centres around the globe, including at the UK's Multi-Element Radio-Linked Interferometer Network (Merlin) and the Joint Institute for VLBI (Very Long Baseline for Interferometry) in Europe - both large networks of linked radio telescopes.
Begin forwarded message:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4278005.stm
Last Updated: Friday, 18 February, 2005, 19:10 GMT
Huge 'star-quake' rocks Milky Way
SGR 1806-20 has intense magnetic fields
Astronomers say they have been stunned by the amount of energy released in a star explosion on the far side of our galaxy, 50,000 light-years away.
The flash of radiation on 27 December was so powerful that it bounced off the Moon and lit up the Earth's atmosphere.
The blast occurred on the surface of an exotic kind of star - a super-magnetic neutron star called SGR 1806-20.
If the explosion had been within just 10 light-years, Earth could have suffered a mass extinction, it is said.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime event
Dr Rob Fender, Southampton University
"We figure that it's probably the biggest explosion observed by humans within our galaxy since Johannes Kepler saw his supernova in 1604," Dr Rob Fender, of Southampton University, UK, told the BBC News website.
One calculation has the giant flare on SGR 1806-20 unleashing about 10,000 trillion trillion trillion watts.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime event. We have observed an object only 20km across, on the other side of our galaxy, releasing more energy in a 10th of a second than the Sun emits in 100,000 years," said Dr Fender.
Fast turn
The event overwhelmed detectors on space-borne telescopes, such as the recently launched Swift observatory.
This facility was put above the Earth to detect and analyse gamma-ray bursts - very intense but fleeting flashes of radiation.
The giant flare it and other instruments caught in December has left scientists scrabbling for superlatives.
Swift moved quickly to track down the source of the gamma-rays
Twenty institutes from around the world have joined the investigation and two teams are to report their findings in a forthcoming issue of the journal Nature.
The light detected from the giant flare was far brighter in gamma-rays than visible light or X-rays.
Research teams say the event can be traced to the magnetar SGR 1806-20.
This remarkable super-dense object is a neutron star - it is composed entirely of neutrons and is the remnant collapsed core of a once giant star.
Now, though, this remnant is just 20km across and spins so fast it completes one revolution every 7.5 seconds.
"It has this super-strong magnetic field and this produces some kind of structure which has undergone a rearrangement - it's an event that is sometimes characterised as a 'star-quake', a neutron star equivalent of an earthquake," explained Dr Fender.
"It's the only possible way we can think of releasing so much energy."
Continued glow
SGR 1806-20 is sited in the southern constellation Sagittarius. Its distance puts it beyond the centre of the Milky Way and a safe distance from Earth.
"Had this happened within 10 light-years of us, it would have severely damaged our atmosphere and would possibly have triggered a mass extinction," said Dr Bryan Gaensler, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who is the lead author on one of the forthcoming Nature papers.
"Fortunately there are no magnetars anywhere near us."
The initial burst of high-energy radiation subsided quickly but there continues to be an afterglow at longer radio wavelengths.
This radio emission persists as the shockwave from the explosion moves out through space, ploughing through nearby gas and exciting matter to extraordinary energies.
"We may go on observing this radio source for much of this year," Dr Fender said.
This work is being done at several centres around the globe, including at the UK's Multi-Element Radio-Linked Interferometer Network (Merlin) and the Joint Institute for VLBI (Very Long Baseline for Interferometry) in Europe - both large networks of linked radio telescopes.
Starmail - 19. Feb, 15:29
BRIGHTEST GALACTIC FLASH EVER DETECTED HITS EARTH
Starmail - 19. Feb, 11:06
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10
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SUNSPOTS
SUNSPOTS: Something's coming. Witness this photo taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on February 5th:
http://tinyurl.com/626w7
Magnetic loops of hot-glowing gas surging above the sun's eastern limb are a telltale sign of sunspots just around the bend. Are they big ones? We'll find out in the days ahead as the sun's rotation turns them toward Earth.
The mystery 'spot could be an old friend: giant sunspot 720. Last month, while it was facing Earth, sunspot 720 unleashed five X-class solar flares. One of those blasts sparked bright auroras over Europe
http://www.spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01jan05_page5.htm
and an intense proton storm on the Moon:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/27jan_solarflares.htm
Source: http://www.spaceweather.com/
Informant: V
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A Winged-disc, "seizing the middle"
by Burak Eldem
http://www.burakeldem.com/en/
(Exerpt): Marduk, Nibiru or an unusual, sophisticated "celestial system" is probably getting closer to our Sun, in the direction of southern celestial pole, well below the Ecliptic plane. No need to look for a "red planet" in distant places beyond Pluto. It already began effecting our Sun since the early 2000's: The supposedly 11-years sunspot cycles are disturbed, some previously unknown source is bombarding the southern hemisphere with mysterious energy surges, the earth's magnetic power is in decline and the climate patterns are being radically changed. I believe, Marduk as ancients call it or "the unknown celestial system" will appear soon (probably just before the year 2010) in southern skies. This is why super powers of the global finance-capital oligarchy feel very uncomfortable and have been running a very aggressive strategy to keep the power in their hands since late 2001. Their time is running up and all their ambition is to control the world with all the energy sources before the chaotic days arrive.
http://planetxinbound.com/winged_disc_.htm
Informant: Di
http://tinyurl.com/626w7
Magnetic loops of hot-glowing gas surging above the sun's eastern limb are a telltale sign of sunspots just around the bend. Are they big ones? We'll find out in the days ahead as the sun's rotation turns them toward Earth.
The mystery 'spot could be an old friend: giant sunspot 720. Last month, while it was facing Earth, sunspot 720 unleashed five X-class solar flares. One of those blasts sparked bright auroras over Europe
http://www.spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01jan05_page5.htm
and an intense proton storm on the Moon:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/27jan_solarflares.htm
Source: http://www.spaceweather.com/
Informant: V
--------
A Winged-disc, "seizing the middle"
by Burak Eldem
http://www.burakeldem.com/en/
(Exerpt): Marduk, Nibiru or an unusual, sophisticated "celestial system" is probably getting closer to our Sun, in the direction of southern celestial pole, well below the Ecliptic plane. No need to look for a "red planet" in distant places beyond Pluto. It already began effecting our Sun since the early 2000's: The supposedly 11-years sunspot cycles are disturbed, some previously unknown source is bombarding the southern hemisphere with mysterious energy surges, the earth's magnetic power is in decline and the climate patterns are being radically changed. I believe, Marduk as ancients call it or "the unknown celestial system" will appear soon (probably just before the year 2010) in southern skies. This is why super powers of the global finance-capital oligarchy feel very uncomfortable and have been running a very aggressive strategy to keep the power in their hands since late 2001. Their time is running up and all their ambition is to control the world with all the energy sources before the chaotic days arrive.
http://planetxinbound.com/winged_disc_.htm
Informant: Di
Starmail - 6. Feb, 14:38
5
Feb
2005
Geese die in droves in Keizer; experts baffled
Bodies of water don't appear to be the cause
CRYSTAL BOLNER
Statesman Journal
February 2, 2005
KEIZER -- Geese are literally falling from the sky in and around Keizer, and wildlife experts don't know why.
About 150 Canada geese were found dead Friday at a private pond off Wheatland Road owned by Morse Bros. rock products in rural Marion County. Thirty or so other dead birds were discovered three months ago near Staats Lake, a private lake in Keizer.
State wildlife officials visited both sites to investigate. The officials suspect that the birds may have died from something they ate, because it doesn't appear that anything in the pond or lake killed the birds.
"Reports of one bird here or one over there is not cause for alarm," said Will High, a wildlife biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. "But when you have 10 or 20 or 30 or 100 of them all of a sudden die in one day, well, that's just not normal."
Peace - Anna
CRYSTAL BOLNER
Statesman Journal
February 2, 2005
KEIZER -- Geese are literally falling from the sky in and around Keizer, and wildlife experts don't know why.
About 150 Canada geese were found dead Friday at a private pond off Wheatland Road owned by Morse Bros. rock products in rural Marion County. Thirty or so other dead birds were discovered three months ago near Staats Lake, a private lake in Keizer.
State wildlife officials visited both sites to investigate. The officials suspect that the birds may have died from something they ate, because it doesn't appear that anything in the pond or lake killed the birds.
"Reports of one bird here or one over there is not cause for alarm," said Will High, a wildlife biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. "But when you have 10 or 20 or 30 or 100 of them all of a sudden die in one day, well, that's just not normal."
Peace - Anna
Starmail - 5. Feb, 13:58
4
Feb
2005
Tilt and Wobble of the Earth's Axis
Signs of the Times #1321
http://www.zetatalk.com/index/z03.htm
During the last week of January [2005], observers all over the world noted a visually obvious wobble in the Earth. [and from another source] El Paso, Jan 22-23 Six hours and a 45 degree shift in the Moon.
Apparently, the wobble is taking place from 22:00 to 24:00. [and from another source] Australia, Jan 23: It looks as if the earths rotation stalled for a while on. Sunday evening whilst Alt continued to decrease. Did it tip at this point whilst being held in position? [and from another source] Mississippi, Jan 25: The moon Friday and Saturday night stood still directly overhead for an hour. Last night (Sunday) it slowed but kept moving. [and from another source] Arkansas, Jan 25-26: On Jan 24, 2005, first light was around 5:30 AM and on Jan 26, 2005 first light was around 6:30 AM. I would say the wobble is getting worse. [and from another source] Australia, Jan 27: This morning Sigma Octantis appeared ten degrees left of a terrestrial target suggesting Earth´s South Pole axis was moved to the right away from the rising Sun. [and from another source] New York, Jan 27: I was staring at the night sky straight at the moon. I could swear that I saw the moon quickly shift to the left and back to its original position. My heart skipped a beat. [and from another source] Italy, Jan 23: I have scientific evidence of the tilt and wobble of the Earth's axis. I cut a slice of one spot in the images of Big Bear each hour. I put them in the exact position and we can see that the line from a spot and next is not linear. As the scope has a linear movement this line is the wobble of the axis. In the other side I take the same spot in different day from SOHO and an Earth observer. We can see that the angle is different by 6 degree. SOHO is correct. [Note: SOHO is not the Earth, and is not wobbling! Earth is wobbling.]
Informant: Anastacia Cook
http://www.zetatalk.com/index/z03.htm
During the last week of January [2005], observers all over the world noted a visually obvious wobble in the Earth. [and from another source] El Paso, Jan 22-23 Six hours and a 45 degree shift in the Moon.
Apparently, the wobble is taking place from 22:00 to 24:00. [and from another source] Australia, Jan 23: It looks as if the earths rotation stalled for a while on. Sunday evening whilst Alt continued to decrease. Did it tip at this point whilst being held in position? [and from another source] Mississippi, Jan 25: The moon Friday and Saturday night stood still directly overhead for an hour. Last night (Sunday) it slowed but kept moving. [and from another source] Arkansas, Jan 25-26: On Jan 24, 2005, first light was around 5:30 AM and on Jan 26, 2005 first light was around 6:30 AM. I would say the wobble is getting worse. [and from another source] Australia, Jan 27: This morning Sigma Octantis appeared ten degrees left of a terrestrial target suggesting Earth´s South Pole axis was moved to the right away from the rising Sun. [and from another source] New York, Jan 27: I was staring at the night sky straight at the moon. I could swear that I saw the moon quickly shift to the left and back to its original position. My heart skipped a beat. [and from another source] Italy, Jan 23: I have scientific evidence of the tilt and wobble of the Earth's axis. I cut a slice of one spot in the images of Big Bear each hour. I put them in the exact position and we can see that the line from a spot and next is not linear. As the scope has a linear movement this line is the wobble of the axis. In the other side I take the same spot in different day from SOHO and an Earth observer. We can see that the angle is different by 6 degree. SOHO is correct. [Note: SOHO is not the Earth, and is not wobbling! Earth is wobbling.]
Informant: Anastacia Cook
Starmail - 4. Feb, 19:30
29
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2005
Erneute weltweite Verstrahlung zu erwarten
Leider haben aktuelle Messwerte erneue radioaktive Quellen ausfindig gemacht, deren Entwicklung noch aussteht. Insofern besteht nicht nur in der Krisenregion, sondern auch in anderen Gegenden der Erde eine akute Tsunami- und Verstrahlungsgefahr. Eine Kettenreaktion bisher nicht vorstellbaren Ausmaßes kann zumindestens nicht ausgeschlossen werden. Insofern muß man leider sogar die Helfer in den Notstandsgebieten vor erneuten Überschwemmungen warnen.
http://www.verbraucherselbstschutz.de/home.jsp?node_id=2005003154207016100
EIne NACHSORGE wird genau so notwendig wie die dringende Entstrahlung land- und gärtnerisch bewirtschafteter Gebiete, da sonst Ernteausfälle in Größenordnungen entstehen.
Ich bedauere, Ihnen keine bessere Nachricht zukommen zu lassen.
Dr. Harald Grünert
http://www.verbraucherselbstschutz.de/home.jsp?node_id=2005003154207016100
EIne NACHSORGE wird genau so notwendig wie die dringende Entstrahlung land- und gärtnerisch bewirtschafteter Gebiete, da sonst Ernteausfälle in Größenordnungen entstehen.
Ich bedauere, Ihnen keine bessere Nachricht zukommen zu lassen.
Dr. Harald Grünert
Starmail - 29. Jan, 23:04
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Jan
2005
TWO SUNS
THE CONNECTION TO 11:11
For quite a few years, I've been reading about and collecting dreams and information about Two Suns. Many are searching for information as to 'why' they are dreaming about or seeing two suns. It was time to move this information into the collective public eye so that others can share their experiences if they care to, but more so to discover the meaning behind the symbol.
Joe
http://www.greatdreams.com/twosuns.htm
Informant: Di
For quite a few years, I've been reading about and collecting dreams and information about Two Suns. Many are searching for information as to 'why' they are dreaming about or seeing two suns. It was time to move this information into the collective public eye so that others can share their experiences if they care to, but more so to discover the meaning behind the symbol.
Joe
http://www.greatdreams.com/twosuns.htm
Informant: Di
Starmail - 25. Jan, 11:20
