Severe weather in UK - 8th November

Flooding 'may put lives at risk'

Residents have been warned to watch the weather and tides

Severe flood warnings are in place on parts of the east coast of England, with the Environment Agency warning of "extreme danger to life and property".

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.

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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>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

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4.3 quake in Algarve, Portugal

2007-11-06 23:09:53.9 36.26N 9.05W 30km 4.3 WEST OF GIBRALTAR

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

UPDATE - Comet Holmes on 3rd November

5.8 quake in Antartida

2007-11-04 20:35:40.7

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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.

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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.

Quakes - 2nd November

06:00:50.6___37.17N 13.26W___10km___3.1___AZORES-CAPE ST. VINCENT RIDGE

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