2007-11-29 19:00__14.95N__61.22W__141___7.4__MARTINIQUE REGION, WINDWARD ISL.
2007-11-29 03:26__36.88S__97.62W___10___6.3__WEST CHILE RISE
2007-11-27 11:50__11.03S_162.21E___ 40___7.1__SOLOMON ISLANDS
2007-11-27 04:27__16.15N_119.97E___ 64___5.9__LUZON, PHILIPPINES
2007-11-26 13:51__37.37N_141.54E___ 30___5.8__NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2007-11-25 19:53___8.06S_118.62E___40___6.8__SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA
2007-11-25 17:41___2.27S_100.43E___ 40___5.9__KEP. MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
2007-11-25 16:02___8.28S_118.41E___ 40___6.7__SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA
2007-11-25 02:52___2.79S_101.19E___ 74___6.1__SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
2007-11-23 01:26___4.73S_151.87E__ 190___5.9__NEW BRITAIN REGION, P.N.G.
2007-11-22 23:02___4.79N__95.12E___ 40___6.0__NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
2007-11-22 08:48___5.89S_147.06E__ 100___6.7__EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG., P.N.G.
2007-11-20 17:55__22.73S__70.40W___40___6.1__OFFSHORE ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
2007-11-20 15:28__29.73S_178.03W___60___5.9__KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND
2007-11-20 12:52___6.89S_155.67E___ 51___6.0__BOUGAINVILLE REGION, P.N.G.
2007-11-19 00:52__21.07S_178.73W__533___6.6__FIJI ISLANDS
2007-11-18 05:40__22.60S__66.14W__190___6.0__JUJUY PROVINCE, ARGENTINA
2007-11-16 03:12___2.25S__77.96W__129___6.7__PERU-ECUADOR BORDER REGION
2007-11-15 17:18__22.58S_175.10W___13___6.5__TONGA ISLANDS
2007-11-15 15:05__22.88S__70.12W___33___6.9__ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
2007-11-15 15:03__22.74S__70.44W___37___6.3__OFFSHORE ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
2007-11-14 15:40__22.17S__69.97W___40___7.8__ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
2007-11-14 04:29___1.54N_127.04E__ 118___5.9__HALMAHERA, INDONESIA
2007-11-12 00:25__10.49N_146.04E___ 10___6.2__EAST CAROLINE ISLANDS, MICRONESIA
2007-11-10 23:42___0.43S__99.04E___ 10___5.9__SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
2007-11-10 23:19___3.27S_100.50E___ 35___6.2__SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
2007-11-10 01:13__52.12S_159.50E___ 30___6.5__MACQUARIE ISLAND REGION
2007-11-04 20:35__67.09S_111.52E____ 2___5.9__ANTARCTICA
2007-11-02 22:31__55.52S_128.73W___33___6.1__PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
Friday, November 30
Thursday, November 29
7.3 quake in Martinique
2007-11-29 19:00:18__14.95N_61.23W__153km__ 7.3__MARTINIQUE REGION, WINDWARD ISL.
Wednesday, November 28
3 small quakes in English Channel
2007-11-29__11:11:01__50.12N__0.93E__2km__3.1__ENGLISH CHANNEL
2007-11-28__14:46:08__50.12N__0.92E__2km__2.9__ENGLISH CHANNEL
2007-11-28__08:09:09__50.13N__0.89E__5km__2.8__ENGLISH CHANNEL
Extreme high tidal around the globe
FREAK TIDAL SURGE CAUSES HAVOC IN INDONESIA AND ELSEWHERE
INDONESIA
Global warming is partly to blame for flooding in Jakarta that has forced thousands of evacuations and cut off a highway to the international airport, Indonesia's environment minister said Tuesday.
Authorities pumped out some of the water, which was 23 feet (7 meters) deep in the worst hit areas and washed more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) inland Monday, said Iskandar, an official at Jakarta's flood crisis center. At least 2,200 houses were inundated, some with chest-deep water.
VIETNAM
High tides on the Sai Gon River in the last two days caused 38 sections of dike to collapse, flooding many houses in Thu Duc, Binh Thanh and Cu Chi districts. High tides on the rivers of Tuy An Song Cau in the south central province of Phu Yen caused 50 houses to collapse and sank 11 fishing vessels. Local authorities in the districts were continuing to evacuate people living in high-risk areas. The two-way lanes across Ca Pass have been blocked by huge rocks that had fallen on the road.
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Ocean swallows town in Atafona, Brasil
The Brazilian town of Atafona, is being swallowed by the ocean as rising temperatures speed up erosion.Researchers say a total of 183 buildings have been destroyed and the Marine lighthouse moved twice in the past 30 years.
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Essex on flood alert after freak high tide
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The Essex coast was on flood alert Sunday night after a FREAK TIDE engulfed a popular waterfront, completely swamping a number of cars. The surge happened at Brightlingsea at around noon when a spring tide led to the sea rising over the town's hard and as far up as the Waterside fish and chip restaurant.
Monday, November 26
Tides trigger tremors deep inside the Earth
A new mystery faces scientists who study stresses that trigger earthquakes both large or small: Even the rise and fall of the ocean's tides are strong enough to trigger pulses of underground tremors that periodically send seismic faults slowly slipping beneath the northwest coast, quake researchers have found.
The scientists, led by a young researcher who will soon join the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, came upon their puzzling discovery after installing highly sensitive seismic detectors on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington and across Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Readings from the detectors revealed that twice a day when it's high tide, the strength of the faint tremors increases, and twice a day at low tide, those underground tremors grow fainter.
And because it's the moon's gravity, as well as the sun's, that causes the tides to rise and fall, those heavenly bodies are, in fact, exerting their legendary influence from afar to alter seismic activity deep beneath the Earth's surface.
But no one knows how or why gravity should reach into the Earth's deep interior, conceded geophysicist Justin Rubenstein, whose work and that of his colleagues appeared in Thursday's online version of the journal Science Express.
Tremors are like tiny earthquakes, but they can never be felt on the surface. Seismologists have long known that when volcanoes are about to erupt, the Earth shudders in tremors along cracks deep beneath the volcanic mountains as the molten magma rises.
But six years ago, Berkeley seismologists performing in-depth earthquake analysis along the San Andreas Fault near quake-prone Parkfield in southern Monterey County recorded episodes of similar faint tremors far beneath the Earth's surface.
Cruise ship goes down off Antarctica
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A Canadian cruise ship struck submerged ice off Antarctica and began sinking, but all 154 passengers and crew, Americans and Britons among them, took to lifeboats and were plucked to safety by a passing cruise ship.
The Chilean navy said the entire MS Explorer finally slipped beneath the waves Friday evening, about 20 hours after the predawn accident near Antarctica's South Shetland Islands.
No injuries were reported although passengers reportedly endured subfreezing temperatures for several hours as they waited in bobbing lifeboats for a Norwegian liner that took them to a Chilean military base in the region.
Wednesday, November 21
Hailstorm triggers cluster bomb blasts
A HAILSTORM has caused hundreds of cluster bombs to explode in south Lebanon, the National News Agency said.
The cluster bombs were dropped by Israel during its war with Hezbollah guerrillas last year.
The hailstones, as big as walnuts, fell in a number of valleys in south Lebanon, the agency said.
When cluster bombs burst, they spread bomblets over the ground and vegetation.
Air- or ground-launched, the bombs often fail to explode on impact.
Cluster bombs have killed 30 people since the war. Dozens more have been wounded.
The cluster bombs were dropped by Israel during its war with Hezbollah guerrillas last year.
The hailstones, as big as walnuts, fell in a number of valleys in south Lebanon, the agency said.
When cluster bombs burst, they spread bomblets over the ground and vegetation.
Air- or ground-launched, the bombs often fail to explode on impact.
Cluster bombs have killed 30 people since the war. Dozens more have been wounded.
Tuesday, November 20
Heavy rain in Lisbon - 19th November
Em casa de um amigo durante o pico da carga de água que assolou Lisboa na noite de 19 de Novembro.
Friday, November 16
Cyclone toll reaches 1,100 in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh - A cyclone that slammed into the coast with 150 mph winds killed at least 1,100 people, isolating remote towns and villages swamped by a storm surge or hemmed in by piles of debris, aid workers and a Bangladeshi news agency said Friday.
Tropical Cyclone Sidr roared across the country's southwestern coast late Thursday with driving rain and high waves, leveling thousands of flimsy huts and forcing the evacuation of 650,000 villagers, officials said.
The United News of Bangladesh news agency said reporters deployed across the devastated region made their own count in each affected district and reached a toll of 1,100.
The government, which earlier put the death toll at 242, has acknowledged its trouble keeping count — with power and phone lines down in most remote areas — and said it expected the official number to rise significantly.
Thursday, November 15
World’s Largest Supercollider Could Destroy the Universe
The Cernier Company or CERN, the world’s largest physics research firm, is currently in the process of building what would be the world’s largest working supercollider. Known as “Large Hadron Collider,” or LHC, the device is 27 kilometers (16.7 miles) long and resides in a tunnel approximately 100 meters beneath the Franco-Swiss border, just outside of Geneva.
By accelerating protons toward each other at 99.999999% the speed of light the LHC can recreate conditions similar to those that resulted from the Big Bang, ultimately alighting a great deal about the particles and forces that comprise our Universe. A press release from CERN better illuminates their intent for the project.
LHC functions by accelerating two counter-rotating beams of protons toward each other at high speeds. By cooling magnets to near absolute zero (-273 degrees celcius) with an enormous cryogenics system, the LHC can move particles toward each other at speeds only one millionth of a percent away from the speed of light.
And while Physicists have the logistics of the LHC well in hand ideas about its outcome are strictly theoretical. According to one scenario tiny black holes could be produced which hopefully would decay into what is known as Hawking radiation (the tinier the black hole, the faster it evaporates). If these black holes fail to decay, however, the consequences could be disasterous. CERN software developer Ran Livneh has expressed some concerns about the project.
Despite these theoretical discrepencies the LHC project will continue as scheduled toward its launch in 2007. Mankind has never progressed itself due to fear of the unknown. Although the results of the Large Hadron Collider could potentially be disasterous, the intellectual consequences of not conducting the experiment could be equally so.
MILLIONS TO EVACUATE AS CYCLONE SLAMS INTO BANGLADESH
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A powerful cyclone slammed into Bangladesh on Thursday night, tearing down flimsy houses, toppling trees and power poles, and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes in the low-lying nation.
Tropical Cyclone Sidr swept in from the Bay of Bengal packing winds of 149 mph (240 kilometers per hour), buffeting southwestern coastal areas within a 155-mile radius of its eye with heavy rain and storm surges predicted to reach 20 feet high.
Sidr's eye crossed the Khulna-Barisal coast near the Sundarbans mangrove forests around 9:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m. ET), the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said. It was centered over the Baleshwar River in Barguna district.
In the coastal districts of Bagerhat, Barisal and Bhola, residents said the storm flattened thousands of flimsy straw and mud huts, and uprooted trees and electric poles.
"We sitting out the storm by candlelight," resident Bishnu Prashad said by phone from Bagerhat.
At least 620,000 people had moved into official shelters and 3.2 million people were expected to be evacuated in all, said Ali Imam Majumder, a senior government official in Dhaka.
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No casualties were immediately reported, but rescue teams were on standby, forest official Mozharul Islam said in Khulna.
Communications with remote forest areas and offshore islands were temporarily cut off.
"We have taken all precautions," Majumder said.
Bangladesh a low-lying delta nation, is prone to seasonal cyclones and floods that cause huge losses of life and property. The coastal area bordering eastern India is famous for the mangrove forests of the Sundarbans, a world heritage site that is home to rare Royal Bengal Tigers.
The Meteorological Department had put the country's three major maritime ports -- Chittagong, Mongla and Cox's Bazar -- on the highest level of alert.
Ferry service and flights were halted across the coastal region.
Ships were warned to return to shore. Volunteers helped evacuate villagers to cyclone shelters, built of concrete on raised pilings. Some took refuge in "mud forts" built along the coast to resist tidal surges.
Schools, mosques and other public buildings were also turned into makeshift shelters.
Many of the fishing boats in the region's coastal waters put down anchor at nearby shoals and islets that dot the South Asian country's shoreline.
The sea resort of Cox's Bazar was deserted after Wednesday's warning. Dozens of tourists were stranded in the offshore coral atoll of St. Martins as rough seas forced cruise boats and ships to stay ashore.
Tropical Cyclone Sidr swept in from the Bay of Bengal packing winds of 149 mph (240 kilometers per hour), buffeting southwestern coastal areas within a 155-mile radius of its eye with heavy rain and storm surges predicted to reach 20 feet high.
Sidr's eye crossed the Khulna-Barisal coast near the Sundarbans mangrove forests around 9:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m. ET), the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said. It was centered over the Baleshwar River in Barguna district.
In the coastal districts of Bagerhat, Barisal and Bhola, residents said the storm flattened thousands of flimsy straw and mud huts, and uprooted trees and electric poles.
"We sitting out the storm by candlelight," resident Bishnu Prashad said by phone from Bagerhat.
At least 620,000 people had moved into official shelters and 3.2 million people were expected to be evacuated in all, said Ali Imam Majumder, a senior government official in Dhaka.
WATCH VIDEO
No casualties were immediately reported, but rescue teams were on standby, forest official Mozharul Islam said in Khulna.
Communications with remote forest areas and offshore islands were temporarily cut off.
"We have taken all precautions," Majumder said.
Bangladesh a low-lying delta nation, is prone to seasonal cyclones and floods that cause huge losses of life and property. The coastal area bordering eastern India is famous for the mangrove forests of the Sundarbans, a world heritage site that is home to rare Royal Bengal Tigers.
The Meteorological Department had put the country's three major maritime ports -- Chittagong, Mongla and Cox's Bazar -- on the highest level of alert.
Ferry service and flights were halted across the coastal region.
Ships were warned to return to shore. Volunteers helped evacuate villagers to cyclone shelters, built of concrete on raised pilings. Some took refuge in "mud forts" built along the coast to resist tidal surges.
Schools, mosques and other public buildings were also turned into makeshift shelters.
Many of the fishing boats in the region's coastal waters put down anchor at nearby shoals and islets that dot the South Asian country's shoreline.
The sea resort of Cox's Bazar was deserted after Wednesday's warning. Dozens of tourists were stranded in the offshore coral atoll of St. Martins as rough seas forced cruise boats and ships to stay ashore.
Wednesday, November 14
Study: Circulation Shift May Be Melting Arctic Sea Ice
Global warming may not be the only reason Arctic ice is rapidly melting, a new study suggests.
A University of Washington team, analyzing data from a NASA satellite and NOAA deep-sea pressure gauges, concludes that the Arctic Ocean is undergoing a circulation reversal.
The reversal appears to be tied to a decade-long atmospheric cycle known as the Arctic Oscillation, which could explain part of the past two decades' dramatic fluctuations in sea ice.
"Our study confirms many changes seen in upper Arctic Ocean circulation in the 1990s were mostly decadal in nature, rather than trends caused by global warming said study team leader James Morison, according to a NASA press release.
Morison's researchers say the data show that between 2002 and 2006, Arctic water circulation began a process of shifting from a counterclockwise to a clockwise pattern.
A clockwise pattern dominated before around 1990, when the recent counterclockwise pattern set in, the study concludes
"While some 1990s climate trends, such as declines in Arctic sea ice extent, have continued, these results suggest at least for the 'wet' part of the Arctic — the Arctic Ocean — circulation reverted to conditions like those prevalent before the 1990s," Morison said.
Arctic sea ice minimums varied greatly during the first part of 1990s, then declined gradually before stabilizing somewhat around 2000.
But this past summer saw a sharp reduction, with only about half as much ice in August and September as was recorded during the 1980s
• Click here for the full NASA press release.
A University of Washington team, analyzing data from a NASA satellite and NOAA deep-sea pressure gauges, concludes that the Arctic Ocean is undergoing a circulation reversal.
The reversal appears to be tied to a decade-long atmospheric cycle known as the Arctic Oscillation, which could explain part of the past two decades' dramatic fluctuations in sea ice.
"Our study confirms many changes seen in upper Arctic Ocean circulation in the 1990s were mostly decadal in nature, rather than trends caused by global warming said study team leader James Morison, according to a NASA press release.
Morison's researchers say the data show that between 2002 and 2006, Arctic water circulation began a process of shifting from a counterclockwise to a clockwise pattern.
A clockwise pattern dominated before around 1990, when the recent counterclockwise pattern set in, the study concludes
"While some 1990s climate trends, such as declines in Arctic sea ice extent, have continued, these results suggest at least for the 'wet' part of the Arctic — the Arctic Ocean — circulation reverted to conditions like those prevalent before the 1990s," Morison said.
Arctic sea ice minimums varied greatly during the first part of 1990s, then declined gradually before stabilizing somewhat around 2000.
But this past summer saw a sharp reduction, with only about half as much ice in August and September as was recorded during the 1980s
• Click here for the full NASA press release.
7.7 strong quake in Antofagasta, Chile
This one was very strong. Look at the Live Seismic Server (link). It reminds me Dec 2004.
2007-11-14 15:40:50.3 22.20S 70.02W 50km 7.7 ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
2007-11-14 15:40:50.3 22.20S 70.02W 50km 7.7 ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
Comet Holmes Bigger Than The Sun
" Spectacular outbursting comet 17P/Holmes exploded in size and brightness on October 24. It continues to expand and is now the largest single object in the Solar system, being bigger than the Sun (see Figure). The diameter of the tenuous dust atmosphere of the comet was measured at 1.4 million kilometers (0.9 million miles) on 2007 November 9 by Rachel Stevenson, Jan Kleyna and Pedro Lacerda of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. They used observations from a wide-field camera on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), one of the few professional instruments still capable of capturing the whole comet in one image. Other astronomers involved in the UH program to study the comet include Bin Yang, Nuno Peixinho and David Jewitt. The present eruption of comet Holmes was first reported on October 24 and has continued at a steady 0.5 km/sec (1100 mph) ever since. The comet is an unprecedented half a million times brighter than before the eruption began. This amazing eruption of the comet is produced by dust ejected from a tiny solid nucleus made of ice and rock, only 3.6 km (roughly 2.2 miles) in diameter. "
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Do we have comet-killer spacecraft out there?
Tuesday, November 13
More on Holmes
Entre o dia 30 Outubro (à direita) e o dia 11 Novembro (à esquerda) - note-se a diferença de escala...
Devem estar a gozar connosco....
Afinal o "asteróide" era a nave espacial Rosetta ????
news.bbc.co.uk
Sunday, November 11
Europa - Nevão gera caos em aeroportos
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| O forte nevão que atingiu ontem a Europa afectou o funcionamento dos aeroportos de Munique e Praga, tendo sido declarado o estado de emergência em algumas zonas da Bósnia e Montenegro (Balcãs). Cerca de 200 voos foram cancelados em Munique, enquanto outros foram desviados para o aeroporto de Nuremberga. Nos Balcãs, a neve levou ao corte de estradas em Montenegro e ao encerramento de escolas na Bósnia. Temperaturas baixas e fortes ventos atingiram também várias zonas da Áustria, França, Itália, Espanha e Polónia. |
Saturday, November 10
Holmes upgrade - 10th November
Most of the big telescopes are missing in action, why ?
The biggest object in our solar system, and growing and expanding by the day, and no images.
You know why ?
People would freak-out and panic...
( Será uma pena que a nossa comunicação social não tenha dito nada sobre este corpo celeste.
Provavelmente ainda o poderá fazer depois de ele ter "desaparecido" das proximidades da Terra.
Como fizeram com o cometa McNaught....)
image comes from this report(Oct 31st)
http://www.scitech.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/comet1.aspx
It's still growing and expanding ...
This is a estimate location of P-17.
The biggest object in our solar system, and growing and expanding by the day, and no images.
You know why ?
People would freak-out and panic...
( Será uma pena que a nossa comunicação social não tenha dito nada sobre este corpo celeste.
Provavelmente ainda o poderá fazer depois de ele ter "desaparecido" das proximidades da Terra.
Como fizeram com o cometa McNaught....)
image comes from this report(Oct 31st)
http://www.scitech.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/comet1.aspx
It's still growing and expanding ...
This is a estimate location of P-17.
Thursday, November 8
Severe weather in UK - 8th November
 Residents have been warned to watch the weather and tides |
Prime Minister Gordon Brown was chairing an emergency Cobra meeting, as low pressure and strong winds combined to cause a North Sea tidal surge.
Norfolk and Suffolk have seven severe flood warnings. Parts of Kent, Essex, North Yorks and Lincs are on alert.
The Dartford Creek and Thames barriers were set to be closed at 2000 GMT.
The flood alerts are a response to weather and tide patterns being tracked this week by the Environment Agency and the Met Office.
Wednesday, November 7
Comet Holmes - 7th November
Comet 17P Holmes Online Petition
We the people, in order to gather more information about the anomaly comet that is Holmes 17P are hereby requesting that the following Space based Telescopes show us their pictures and or slew and track and take pictures of Comet 17P Holmes.
Chandra X-Ray Observatory: cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
New Horizons Pluto Mission: Kerri.Beisser@jhuapl.edu
Hubble Telescope: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/contact-us.cfm [online form]
Cassini [orbits Saturn] http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/contact-us.cfm [online form]
Spitzer Infrared Telescope: help@spitzer.caltech.edu
Comet Holmes In The Electric Universe By Michael Goodspeed Thunderbolts.info 11-7-7
"It's a mystery to me how comets work at all."
--Donald Brownlee, principal investigator of NASA's Stardust Mission
So what might have happened to Comet Holmes? It is not a typical comet. The eccentricity of its orbit is minimal. It is always outside the orbit of Mars and inside the orbit of Jupiter. In fact, it is virtually as close to being an asteroid as it is to being a comet. And astronomers are slowly realizing that the distinctions between asteroids and comets are not as clear as they had once believed. Occasionally, asteroids sport cometary tails, like the asteroid Chiron, which was seen to develop a tail while orbiting between Saturn and Uranus around 1988 and 1989. It is now officially classified as both an asteroid and a comet. Since the electrical stresses on Holmes would be minimal, much like those on asteroids with modestly elliptical orbits, it is not unreasonable to assume that its plasma sheath remains largely undisturbed -- unless it penetrates into or is penetrated by another sheath with sufficient differential across its double layer to cause an explosive breakdown. It's interesting to note that the diagram of Holmes' orbit shows that it crossed the ecliptic (the plane of the planets movement around the Sun) quite close to the time of its closest approach to Mars. So it is certainly conceivable that Mars' own plasma sheath, by penetrating that of Holmes, provoked the fateful breakdown. Though this would not qualify as a coherent hypothesis today, it is the kind of issue raised by the electric model that is systematically ignored by mainstream astronomers. As of this writing, the space science community has fallen virtually mute on the enigma(s) of Comet Holmes. Comet science is in an undeniable state of crisis, and nothing short of an intellectual revolution will save officialdom from irredeemable embarrassment. It is the hope of the electric specialists that the failures of the standard comet model, so nakedly obvious in the face of discovery, will inspire astronomers and astrophysicists to reconsider the real-world disciplines of electrodynamics and experimental plasma science -- disciplines that should never have been excluded in the first place.
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We the people, in order to gather more information about the anomaly comet that is Holmes 17P are hereby requesting that the following Space based Telescopes show us their pictures and or slew and track and take pictures of Comet 17P Holmes.
Chandra X-Ray Observatory: cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
New Horizons Pluto Mission: Kerri.Beisser@jhuapl.edu
Hubble Telescope: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/contact-us.cfm [online form]
Cassini [orbits Saturn] http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/contact-us.cfm [online form]
Spitzer Infrared Telescope: help@spitzer.caltech.edu
Comet Holmes In The Electric Universe By Michael Goodspeed Thunderbolts.info 11-7-7
"It's a mystery to me how comets work at all."
--Donald Brownlee, principal investigator of NASA's Stardust Mission
So what might have happened to Comet Holmes? It is not a typical comet. The eccentricity of its orbit is minimal. It is always outside the orbit of Mars and inside the orbit of Jupiter. In fact, it is virtually as close to being an asteroid as it is to being a comet. And astronomers are slowly realizing that the distinctions between asteroids and comets are not as clear as they had once believed. Occasionally, asteroids sport cometary tails, like the asteroid Chiron, which was seen to develop a tail while orbiting between Saturn and Uranus around 1988 and 1989. It is now officially classified as both an asteroid and a comet. Since the electrical stresses on Holmes would be minimal, much like those on asteroids with modestly elliptical orbits, it is not unreasonable to assume that its plasma sheath remains largely undisturbed -- unless it penetrates into or is penetrated by another sheath with sufficient differential across its double layer to cause an explosive breakdown. It's interesting to note that the diagram of Holmes' orbit shows that it crossed the ecliptic (the plane of the planets movement around the Sun) quite close to the time of its closest approach to Mars. So it is certainly conceivable that Mars' own plasma sheath, by penetrating that of Holmes, provoked the fateful breakdown. Though this would not qualify as a coherent hypothesis today, it is the kind of issue raised by the electric model that is systematically ignored by mainstream astronomers. As of this writing, the space science community has fallen virtually mute on the enigma(s) of Comet Holmes. Comet science is in an undeniable state of crisis, and nothing short of an intellectual revolution will save officialdom from irredeemable embarrassment. It is the hope of the electric specialists that the failures of the standard comet model, so nakedly obvious in the face of discovery, will inspire astronomers and astrophysicists to reconsider the real-world disciplines of electrodynamics and experimental plasma science -- disciplines that should never have been excluded in the first place.
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>3.3 quakes in Madeira + Portugal
2007-11-07 14:28:00.4 36.09N 8.85W 98km 3.3 WEST OF GIBRALTAR
2007-11-07 14:25:35.3 36.16N 10.11W 30km 2.6 AZORES-CAPE ST. VINCENT RIDGE
2007-11-07 03:32:04.9 34.46N 14.03W 40km 3.6 MADEIRA ISLANDS, PORTUGAL REGION
2007-11-07 14:25:35.3 36.16N 10.11W 30km 2.6 AZORES-CAPE ST. VINCENT RIDGE
2007-11-07 03:32:04.9 34.46N 14.03W 40km 3.6 MADEIRA ISLANDS, PORTUGAL REGION
Monday, November 5
Cometa Holmes - 5th November
Comet Holmes continues to be an impressive sight to the unaided eye. The comet has diminished in brightness only slightly, and now clearly appears to have a larger angular extent than stars and planets. Astrophotographers have also noted a distinctly green appearance to the comet's coma over the past week. Pictured above over Spain in three digitally combined exposures, Comet 17P/Holmes now clearly sports a tail. The blue ion tail is created by the solar wind impacting ions in the coma of Comet Holmes and pushing them away from the Sun. Comet Holmes underwent an unexpected and dramatic increase in brightness starting only two weeks ago. The detail visible in Comet Holmes' tail indicates that the explosion of dust and gas that created this dramatic brightness increase is in an ongoing and complex event. Comet Holmes will move only slightly on the sky over during the next month. Astronomy Picture Of the Day
Sunday, November 4
6.3 quake in Antartida
Rare, strong earthquake jolts Antarctica SANTIAGO (Xinhua): An earthquake registering 6.3 on the Richter scale rocked Antarctica at 2031 GMT Friday, the Chilean national TV station reported.According to the survey of the U.S. geological research bureau, the epicenter of the quake was 3,641 kilometers from Punta Arenas, Chile's southern most city.Earthquakes rarely hit Antarctica, and their scales are normally small.The Hindu News Update Service
Saturday, November 3
Comet Holmes visible in Portugal
This is a digital photograph of comet Holmes taken in Western Portugal
on November 3rd @ 21:38 in it's closest approach to Earth.
Still visible at naked eye.
Friday, November 2
Weather & Associates
It is with great pleasure that I have found this blog
Being able to have updated information on areas such as climatology, astronomy, vulcanology and even seismic monotoring is a breath of fresh air or a "hole in one".
Your information on matters such as planet or "whatever" HOLMES is refreshing and requires from all of us an instrospective view on orbit matters.
Being able to have updated information on areas such as climatology, astronomy, vulcanology and even seismic monotoring is a breath of fresh air or a "hole in one".
Your information on matters such as planet or "whatever" HOLMES is refreshing and requires from all of us an instrospective view on orbit matters.
Thursday, November 1
Weather News - 1st November
Oman braces itself for second cyclone
Nordic nations sound alarm over melting Arctic
Nordic nations sound alarm over melting Arctic
Indonesian volcano rumbles into life after more than 600 hundred tremors recorded
California's Calaveras Fault hit with nearly 40 aftershocks after 5.6 quake
New theory on origin and future of the Universe
Cosmic Rays Seem to Originate With Supernovas
Comet phenomenon is spotted in UK
Como encontrar o cometa Holmes?
From Spaceweather
GIANT COMET: Comet 17P/Holmes has been relentlessly expanding since its explosion on Oct 23rd and now it spans an angle in the sky almost half as wide as the full Moon. Using a picture of the comet he took on Oct. 30th, Helmut Groell of Moers, Germany, created this animation for comparison:
Actually, the comet is even bigger than it looks. While the Moon is a mere 240 thousand miles away, Comet Holmes is 150 million miles from Earth. The comet's physical diameter is thus seven times wider than the planet Jupiter--and it is still expanding.
GIANT COMET: Comet 17P/Holmes has been relentlessly expanding since its explosion on Oct 23rd and now it spans an angle in the sky almost half as wide as the full Moon. Using a picture of the comet he took on Oct. 30th, Helmut Groell of Moers, Germany, created this animation for comparison:
Actually, the comet is even bigger than it looks. While the Moon is a mere 240 thousand miles away, Comet Holmes is 150 million miles from Earth. The comet's physical diameter is thus seven times wider than the planet Jupiter--and it is still expanding.
Entre 1 e 6 de Novembro será o período ideal para observar a passagem
deste raro cometa. Continuará visível até 23 de Janeiro de 2008 nos céus
de Perseu (ver mapa da trajectória de passagem).
Quakes - 1st November
09:13:55.0__37.72N 25.15W___1km___2.5__AZORES ISLANDS, PORTUGAL
00:05:21.0___5.04S_153.55E__80km___5.4__NEW IRELAND REGION, P.N.G.
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