Recent work by David Hathaway, a solar physicist at the Marshall Space Flight Center, indicates that solar activity will peak around the middle of the year 2000. "Our predictions have consistently targeted 2000 as the beginning of solar maximum," says Hathaway. "The projected peak is comparable to ... the peaks of the last two maxima (in 1989 and 1978) -- above average compared to all sunspots cycle since the mid 1700s." --http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast14oct99_1.htm
