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never forget is the first episode of the Flash Gordon serial.
Ming the Merciless aims a death ray of some sort at Earth. |
Magnestar,
Flash! (NOAA) |
It is this event that leads Flash
to venture into space to counter Ming's death ray. And, pulling
from a trove of newsreel footage, the serial directors showed the
x-ray results: tidal waves in Samoa, earthquake in China, catastrophe
in general.
When we feel bad, and feel the world seems in a tangle too, how
often we feel it is Ming and his cosmic death ray disrupting our
natural order. When president's totter and the car won't start,
we wonder if Ming is at work. Clinton's and Wall Street's (not to
mention the Mets') August 1998 troubles seemed to a part of a confluence.
And we note that on August 27, 1998, according to Stanford and other
researchers, witnessed a cosmic event in which the Earth's magnetic
field was extravaganly disrupted by a distant 3-megaton "magnestar."
So what do we know about these things
(sometimes) called magnestars and (more widely known as) geomagnetic
storms? More to come
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| SEC
Space Weather Advisories |
| Latest
SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK #99- 37 1999 December 28 at 03:16
p. Summary For December 20-26 Space weather reached
moderate levels during the past week. Outlook For December
29-January 4 Space weather is expected to decline to
more nominal levels during the next week. Introduction
to SEC Space Weather Advisories NOAA Space Weather Scales
- Description of catagories used in Outlooks. |
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Score: 89%
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12/28/99 10:17:40 PM GMT Source:
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| Geomagnetic
Storm |
| Geomagnetic
storms are major disturbances of the magnetosphere that
occur when the interplanetary magnetic field turns southward
and remains southward for an prolonged period of time.
The drop in the surface magnetic field strength during
the main phase of a geomagnetic storm is typically preceded
by a brief rise in the field strength (see the entry
for Dst index). Geomagnetic storms are classified as
recurrent and non-recurrent. Non-recurrent geomagnetic
storms, on the other hand, occur most frequently near
solar maximum. |
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Size: 2K Date:
12/22/99 2:55:02 PM GMT Source:
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| NOAA's
Space Weather (Story 317) |
| November
9, 1999 - As the sun revs up for Solar Max, a time of
intense solar activity, we can look forward to increasingly
turbulent space weather. "NOAA's new scales are the
Richter scales of space weather. Each time there is
a solar event, NOAA's National Weather Service includes
information on the event in its transmission of weather
data. Working like the Richter scale for earthquakes,
NOAA's new space weather scales describe the intensity
and frequency of three kinds of solar events: geomagnetic
storms, solar radiation storms and radio blackouts.
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