Suspicious 0bservers Daily News for 27 Oct, 2017

Scientists Baffled on Comets & Dark Matter

As the Sun rotates around, we have a sunspot group coming in with a coronal hole showing up to the south.
Solar wind has calmed down as the last remnants of the previous coronal hole stream have faded away. Check out the Space Weather charts below to see that everything is green and no worries. The next stream should hit us on about Halloween.

• 4.3 magnitude earthquake in Lompoc, CA, just north of Los Angeles was the only significant quake in the last 24 hours.

• Hubble discovers "wobbling galaxies" so it is either Dark Matter doing something it shouldn't be doing or that the hole idea of Dark Matter is even deader now.

• Rosetta finds comet plume powered from below. In summary, more space stuff scientists have no idea how it works.

• On the "Need more sources" side of the news. DoD Plans Solar-Storm-Based National Blackout Drill During Antifa Protests In November

While I would find it hilarious if somehow the DoD shutdown power to blackout status while snowflakes do their best to act like roosters looking for a hen, I don't think everyone would find it funny. If The National Association for Amateur Radio is right on this, then people probably should have a heads up.

Elements of the US Department of Defense (DOD) will conduct a “communications interoperability” training exercise November 4-6, once again simulating a “very bad day” scenario. Amateur Radio and MARS organizations will take part.

“This exercise will begin with a national massive coronal mass ejection event which will impact the national power grid as well as all forms of traditional communication, including landline telephone, cellphone, satellite, and Internet connectivity,” Army MARS Program Manager Paul English, WD8DBY, explained in an announcement.

However, this is just a drill for the Amateur Radio people to do a roll call. It doesn't say that any blackout will happen. However, the groups holding the protest on Nov. 4th keep saying there won't be violence, either. I guess we'll all have to wait and see.

Coronal holes are regions where the sun's corona is dark. These features were discovered when X-ray telescopes were first flown above the Earth's atmosphere to reveal the structure of the corona across the solar disc. Coronal holes are associated with 'open' magnetic field lines and are often found at the sun's poles. ~ https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2268.html

Sunspots are temporary phenomena on the Sun's photosphere that appear as spots darker than the surrounding areas. They are regions of reduced surface temperature caused by concentrations of magnetic field flux that inhibit convection. Sunspots usually appear in pairs of opposite magnetic polarity. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot

Solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun, called the corona. This plasma consists of mostly electrons, protons and alpha particles with thermal energies between 1.5 and 10 keV. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind

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Source: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index#

Asteroid Watch

Average distance between Earth and the moon is about 239,000 miles (385,000 kilometers).
Source: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch/

Yesterday I posted that there weren't any Near Earth Objects until Halloween. Good thing you can check the widget each day, because apparently 5 new ones appeared on the list. The Oct. 29th one coming in extremely close in astronomical measurements. It is just 5 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon, so no real worries that the airline sized object will make an impact.

• 2017 UM5 on 2017-Oct-27 at a distance of 0.01532 AU approximately 21 m - 46 m large
• 2017 UB6 on 2017-Oct-28 at a distance of 0.03165 AU approximately 9.5 m - 21 m large
• 2017 UK6 on 2017-Oct-28 at a distance of 0.03029 AU approximately 46 m - 100 m large
• 2017 UA6 on 2017-Oct-29 at a distance of 0.01025 AU approximately 19 m - 43 m large
• 2017 UJ6 on 2017-Oct-30 at a distance of 0.01412 AU approximately 14 m - 31 m
  Source: https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

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