This prediction is up there with the global warming nuts - trying to use
~400 years of data to predict the behavior of something with a 6 billion
year history.
Barry W2UP
On 6/15/2011 7:39 AM, Zack Widup wrote:
Tweak up those low band antennas!
73, Zack W9SZ
On 6/15/11, Bill Hawkins<[email protected]> wrote:
I thought we just came out of that!
Bill W5EC
BREAKING - major AAS solar announcement: Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop
in Solar Activity
The American Astronomical Society meeting in Los Cruces, NM has just made a
major announcement on the state of the sun. Sunspots may be on the way out
and an extended solar minimum may be on the horizon.
From Space.com reporting from the conference:
Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening
magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is
preparing to be less active in the coming years.
The results of three separate studies seem to show that even as the current
sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into
a more-dormant period, with activity during the next 11-year sunspot cycle
greatly reduced or even eliminated.
Currently, the sun is in the midst of the period designated as Cycle 24 and
is ramping up toward the cycle's period of maximum activity. However, the
recent findings indicate that the activity in the next 11-year solar cycle,
Cycle 25, could be greatly reduced. In fact, some scientists are questioning
whether this drop in activity could lead to a second Maunder Minimum, which
was a 70-year period from 1645 to 1715 when the sun showed virtually no
sunspots.
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