Space Weather Daily Update for 24 May, 2018

deanlogic (61)in #science • 6 years ago

Sunspots, Flares, USA Tropical Risk, Comet

I haven't done an update in a couple of days due to time issues. However, I did know that there were a couple of bright spots that were active. Currently on the Earth Facing disc, there are 2 bright spots and a 3rd coming on to the disc. We had a C Class solar flare last night. Solar wind was up, but not they are dropping and calming down and this is reflected in the Planetary K-index, which is at lower green levels, but hasn't reached yellow in the past few days. The coronal hole stream should be hitting us in a few days, so there might be more interesting volcanic and earthquake activity before then.

Earthquakes and volcanoes of note

5.1 magnitude earthquake near 123 km from Nago, Okinawa, Japan
5.0 magnitude earthquake near Khorixas, Kunene, Namibia -- 2 this year. Last one 6 years ago.
4.4 magnitude earthquake near Pamandzi, Pamandzi, Mayotte / Madagascar - the Mascarene Plateau is said to have been formed by a volcanoes. I think we might have an awakening of an undersea volcano here. This would correspond with lower sunspot activity and increased earthquake and volcanic activity. The Sun seems to wake up dormant volcanoes when it goes to sleep

Kīlauea, Hawaii - code red
Mauna Loa, Hawii - code yellow
Cleveland, Alaska - code yellow

Space Objects

I haven't checked the database in a couple of days, but it looks like only 1 Near-Earth Object(NEO) was added. The chart is almost showing the end of June NEOs at this point.

Other News

Astronomers Spot a Distant and Lonely Neutron Star with Chandra
Lightning from a thunderstorm reached the upper layers of the atmosphere and its light show was captured by ESA’s latest observatory in space.
Lightening up dark galaxies. Do they have few stars or do they just have different stars?
Rosetta unravels formation of sunrise jets. "en outbursts of gas and dust, daily recurring phenomena at sunrise can be observed." Just remember kids, asteroids make great space ships.
Tropical storm could drench Gulf Coast over Memorial Day weekend.

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Space Weather

Asteroid Watch

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

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

Object	Flyby Date	AU distance	Approximate Sixe
(2018 JG2)	2018-May-25	0.04723	46 m - 100 m
(2018 KR)	2018-May-28	0.04029	14 m - 31 m
68347 (2001 KB67)	2018-May-29	290 m - 650 m
(2013 LE7)	2018-May-31	0.04558	8.8 m - 20 m
(2018 KE1)	2018-Jun-01	0.02766	24 m - 54 m

Close Approach Database
Source: https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

Volcanic Alert Key

~ source: https://volcanoes.usgs.gov

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