Proton Blast of Mysterious Origin, a superwave?

VOICE FROM WITHIN THE MATRIX

Milk Hill Crop Circle [8/14/01]

Does the geometry whisper, "spin me, Alice?" Experiment suggested, correct the geometry towards symmetry, print it and spin it counter-clockwise.  Bet a buck-fifty the design will bust way beyond the plane, at least into 3D, maybe 4D!

DOUGIT'S

MILK HILL SPINNER

Wow Kent, Sensitive minds must think alike. I made me a Milk Hill Spinner about 7 weeks ago. I have attached the file. Distribute it freely. It might save the earth. It is 7.5 inches across at 150 dpi, perfect for printing, then cut it out as a circle, mount on something like cardboard, put a pin in the middle of it, attach it to a wall or something else, AND START SPINNING. Newborn babys LOVE IT, in fact it may have the power to create super-humans out of today's newborns.

WOW! FLASH ANIMATION OF THE MILK HILL SPINNER J.Strowd

[To change speed right click and adjust quality to low, medium, high, try zoom]

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MOVIE AND PHI WAV [Seems to work with both Netscape and IE]

EDITOR: never before seen on my watch

ALERT: FLASH RADAR: DAISEYWAVES OVER LOUISIANA

Sun-Earth Alert

Solar Terrestrial Dispatch
http://www.spacew.com

16 August 2001

INTRIGUING ENERGETIC SOLAR EVENT OF 16 AUGUST

     Shortly after 00:30 UTC on 16 August (8:30 pm EDT on 15 August), a
remarkably energetic and unusual solar event occurred that is worthy of an
AstroAlert notice.

     At around 00:30 UTC, proton sensors onboard spacecraft began observing
an unusually energetic increase in the density of high energy protons.
Usually, such strong bursts of radiation are produced by strong solar flares.
But no obvious regions of activity capable of producing such strong bursts of
radiation were visible anywhere on the visible Sun.

     At 23:30 UTC on 15 August (7:30 pm EDT on 15 August), the SOHO
spacecrafts LASCO instrument began imaging a rapid and bright full halo
coronal mass ejection (named a halo CME because of the ring of light that the
ejected mass forms around the Sun as it expands outward). Full halo CMEs are
the result of mass being ejected from the Sun either toward or directly away
from the Earth and are of high interest because of their potential Earthward
trajectory.

     It was immediately reasoned that the energetic proton burst was most
likely associated with the bright and fast moving coronal mass ejection.
This particular CME was determined by SOHO science members to be travelling
outward along the plane of the sky at a speed as high as approximately 1,200
kilometers per second (4.3 million kilometers per hour or about 2.7 million
miles per hour). Average velocities for CMEs are around 400 to 600 km/sec, so
this disturbance was also somewhat unusual for its high outward velocity.

     Part of the problem was in identifying the source of this activity. It
did not occur anywhere on the visible side of the Sun that we see from the
Earth, or spacecraft and ground-based telescopic instruments would have
observed it. Even the Japanese Yohkoh x-ray imaging spacecraft (which takes
regular images of the Sun in x-rays) did not appear to observe any clearly
obvious signs of x-ray brightenings on the solar limbs or slightly behind the
Sun. It therefore must have originated from somewhere fairly far behind the
Sun where the high-altitude x-ray signatures of activity would be occulted by
the Sun itself.

     Evidence supporting this backside scenario came in the form of a
sequence of images taken by the SOHO spacecraft at around 23:48 UTC. The EIT
(extreme ultraviolet imaging telescope) onboard the SOHO spacecraft began to
observe an interesting brightening all around the limb of the Sun. Scientists
interpreted this limb brightening at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths as a
coronal wave that propagated from the site of the solar explosion on the far
side of the Sun to the limbs of the Sun that we can see from the Earth.
Coronal waves are fairly common with coronal mass ejection disturbances. But
coronal waves that travel such large distances are more rare.

     Additional evidence became available through the science of
helioseismology where vibrations on the solar surface are used to determine
centers of sunspot activity on the far side of the Sun (much like
seismologists on the Earth can determine the location of an earthquake from
distant locations by measuring the vibrations they produce through the
Earth). Scientists associated with the SOHO spacecraft resolved an area of
increased activity in the southern solar hemisphere and on the opposite side
of the Sun. This area coincides nicely with the predicted location of a
potentially volatile sunspot group that was in the process of maturing when
it rotated behind the western limb of the Sun and out of view late on 08
August.

     Scientists and space weather forecasters therefore concluded that this
energetic proton burst and the associated strong coronal mass ejection may
have been produced by a strong solar flare and coronal mass ejection on the
far side of the Sun within the sunspot group known as Region 9557.

     Although this was a very interesting and exciting event for solar
scientists and space weather forecasters, what was perhaps the most
fascinating and puzzling aspect was the strength of the proton event and the
rapidity with which it reached the Earth.

     Most solar flares that produce strong proton bursts take time to reach
the Earth. Protons are charged particles that can be accelerated to high
velocities. Higher energy protons travel faster than lower energy protons.
This particular event was associated with exceptionally high velocity
protons travelling at near relativistic velocities (near the speed of light).
Protons having energies greater than 100 million electron volts (MeV) were
detected in abundance during this event. The near Earth space environment
typically has fairly few protons that are energized to 100 MeV. But during
this event, protons with energies greater than 100 MeV increased in density
near the Earth to about 300 times normal background levels. It was
categorized as a major high energy proton event.

     The problem (and puzzle) with this activity was that the source of the
proton enhancement was probably near the opposite side of the Sun. It is very
rare for protons to reach the Earth from so far behind the Sun and even rarer
for protons to reach the Earth so rapidly after an event occurs on the far
side of the Sun. In fact, such a prompt and intense proton event has
apparently never been observed from such a distant location near the other
side of the Sun.

     Most energetic proton solar flares that have occurred behind the Sun
have resulted in mild enhancements of protons many hours after the event
occured with relatively few high energy protons at > 100 MeV. It usually
takes hours for the accelerated protons to diffuse through the solar
atmosphere to the point where the Sun's magnetic field can carry them to the
Earth (charged particles like protons move most easily along magnetic field
lines - they do not move easily across magnetic field lines).

     So one of the big questions that has been raised is: how did this
particular solar event produce such an intense and rapid response at the
Earth? There will undoubtably be many scientific papers over the ensuing
years that attempt to address this question.

     This energetic proton event produced serious degradations in space-based
images of the Sun and has affected spacecraft star-tracking cameras and other
imaging instruments on spacecraft by introducing streaks of light (caused by
high-energy protons impacting the imaging electronics) that can confuse the
instruments. Such energetic proton events can also produce permanant
degradation in the electrical generating efficiency of spacecraft solar
array panels. Other spacecraft anomalies can (and do) accompany such strong
proton events.

     Fortunately (or unfortunately, if you are an avid aurora hunter), the
coronal mass ejection disturbance associated with this event is directed
outward and away from the Earth. We will therefore not see the direct effects
of this disturbance, although we will continue to suffer the effects of the
high energy proton event in space for several more days to come. It should be
noted that this event is harmless to life on Earth. The Earth's atmosphere
(ionosphere) shields us from the effects of the enhanced proton related space
radiation. And although the astronauts on the International Space Station
will observe slightly higher radiation levels during this event, the
radiation hazard is still considered low.

     It will be interesting to monitor solar conditions over the next 4 to
8 days. Sunspot Region 9557 may rotate back into view around the east limb
of the Sun at that time. Whether it rotates into view as a potent sunspot
group capable of producing significant energetic solar flares is a question
that many will be asking. Activity from that region fo the Sun will be
closely monitored over the next 7 to 10 days, primarily in the form of
coronal mass ejection intensity and helioseismic signatures.

     Solar observers may want to pay special attention to the southeast limb
of the Sun as Region 9557 begins to approach it over the next week.


**  End of AstroAlert  **

SUBSEQUENT EVENTS Region 9557, renamed 9591, comes back around to the visible solar disc

Kent is back, catch-up time, looks like the magstorm is now starting, glancing blow, a result of an X-5 event on August 25th at 16:30, region 9591. It is suspected that this threatening region might be the source of the backside event as shown immediately below; however the 25th event did not produce the expected proton surge as [mysteriously] before on the 17th; therefore, we might still theorize about extra-solar events influencing the sun and its planets. Keep watch, more to come as 9591 looms to center. Get it? No? Why it is all as plain as the wood sprites in the forest. Sheesh!

GABRIEL'S HORN NOVEMBER, 2000

Large Object Discovered Orbiting Sun  Plot  Wild Notes

WHAT ARE THESE BEASTS: In similar trajectories.

4/27 ANOTHER SOLAR TORPEDO

Large Animo Possible mantle-splash

4/30/00 TORPEDO INTO SOL

SOLAR ROGUES GALLERY

DANCE OF THE WORLDS C2 MPEG C3 MPEG