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New Research Reveals What Causes Landslides on Mars

 

On Mars, seasonal features known as recurring slope lineae (RSL) are prevalent on Sun-facing slopes. Previous studies have suggested RSL are related to chlorine salts and noted their occurrence in regions of high sulfate outcrops. New laboratory experiments demonstrate that interactions of sulfates and chlorine salts in fine-grained soils on the Red Planet could absorb water, expand, deliquesce, cause subsidence, form crusts, disrupt surfaces, and ultimately produce landslides after dust loading on these unstable surfaces.

HiRISE camera view of Krupac crater on Mars featuring gullies along the rim and recurring slope lineae lower down the crater wall. Image credit: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona.

“I am excited about the prospect of microscale liquid water on Mars in near-surface environments where ice and salts are present,” said lead author Dr. Janice Bishop, a researcher in the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute and the Space Science and Astrobiology at NASA’s Ames Research Center.

“This could revolutionize our perspective on habitability just below the surface on Mars today.”

“During my fieldwork at Salar de Pajonales, a dry salt bed in Northern Chile, I have observed numerous examples of the action of salts on the local geology,” added co-author Professor Nancy Hinman, a researcher in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Montana.

“It’s gratifying to find that it could play a role in shaping Mars as well.”

The scientists conducted lab experiments to observe what would occur if they froze and thawed Mars analog samples comprised of chlorine salts and sulfates at low temperatures such as would be found on the Red Planet.

The result was slushy ice formation near minus 50 degrees Celsius, followed by gradual melting of the ice from minus 40 to minus 20 degrees Celsius.

“Probing the low-temperature behavior of Mars analog permafrost in the lab with infrared spectroscopy revealed that thin layers of liquid-like water were forming along grain surfaces as the salty soils thawed under subzero, Mars-like temperatures,” said co-author Dr. Merve Yeşilbaş, a researcher in the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute and the Department of Chemistry at Umeå University.

Modeling the behavior of chlorine salts and sulfates, including gypsum, under low temperatures demonstrates how interrelated these salts are.

It may be that this microscale liquid water migrates underground on Mars, transferring water molecules between the sulfates and chlorides, almost like passing a soccer ball down the field.

Additional lab experiments tested these sulfate-chloride reactions in a Mars analog soil with color indicators that revealed subsurface hydration of these salts and the migration of salts through the soil grains.

“I was thrilled to observe such rapid reactions of water with sulfate and chlorine salts in our lab experiments and the resulting collapse and upheave of Mars analog soil on a small scale, replicating geologic collapse and upheave features in karst systems, salt reservoirs, and edifice collapse on a large scale,” Dr. Bishop said.

The research is published in the journal Science Advances.

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J.L. Bishop et al. 2021. Martian subsurface cryosalt expansion and collapse as trigger for landslides. Science Advances 7 (6): eabe4459; doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe4459

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3-4th November 2020

 

 

 Earthquake of 3th-4th Nov shows where the earthquakes while we see any earthquakes on the global.

 

 

 

 

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DOUBLE EARTHQUATE

 
Another powerful Double Earthquake  in Jan Mayen Island Regions

 

 

 

 

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Planets 26th Sep-2020

 

Here is a foto of the planet for today, 26the Sept.

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Over today and tomorrow planetary alignments

Over today and tomorrow planetary alignments will be possible to create some stress over the earth and we can below we see Uranus-Venus-Earth, and we can also have Mercury-Neptune-Earth, but close the Sun I expect this will be diversion to this alignment. The other is Jupiter but Pluto is rather far away to create major this alignment. But It is possible to see 6-6.5 within few hours   

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The Moon Today

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The Planets Tomorrow and Alignments

We show the planetary positions and alignments in the figure above. We can see we are close to significant alignments hence from now we are in a window of vulnerability for 2-3 of days. We have Earth-Mars-Neptune ,  Uranus-Earth -Venus,  and Saturn- Sun- Mercury coming along increasing stresses on Earth.

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Planets today 25th November 2018

The planets today and the major alignment Earth-Mercury-Sun-Jupiter, which since ysterdayis responsible for some strong events we have seen.

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Planets today 24th November 2018

The planets today and some planetary alignments in the Solar System

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Planetary Alignments Today

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The Planets Today

The planets today, and we can look at the heliocentric view, as seen above, have the following aspects. We see a good opposition between Venus and Chiron, but also a sesquisquare between the Earth and Mercury. Venus is also quincunx to Uranus. A Venus flavour therefore today together with this Mercury-Earth aspect. Be Safe Be Good.

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22nd September planetary aspects

Tomorrow's aspects in the sky are getting harsher as we can see from the chart above.
Prominent here we have Jupiter Square Mercury , with Mercury Trining  Earth. So Jupiter's perturbation on Mercury is being transfered to Earth. Jupiter and the Earth are quincunx and therefore Jupiter is sending both ways direct and via Mercury hard time on the Earth. Add to that Mars. Well Mars is quincunx to Earth too, so we cant say this is useful or calming influence. Add finally the fact that we are just leaving the nasty square to Saturn, and I expect therefore to see some hard action upon us by the planets involved.

We have seen the earth being hard treated by ouside influences, for us the humans on earth geocentrically we also see some important aspects, including this one, of Jupiter opposite Uranus! However nice Jupiter can be, this time is not nice! Opposite Uranus for us is simply trouble. Trouble which is triggered by our faithful Moon! Yes even the Moon faithful as it is, always near us, this time is triggering Jupiter, to unlease on us. I know I know it reminds us in our lives the other half, faithful as they are, who instead of difusing situations they aggrevate them. Here the Moon does trigger this and possibly a 6-7R is possible.

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Final totality: The final total solar eclipse will be in 600 million years time, as the moon will be around 30,400km further from the Earth while the sun’s diameter will be around 5% larger

Total solar eclipses are seen on Earth because of a fortuitous combination of circumstances. But when will be the last, the real final totality?

The final total solar eclipse will be in 600 million years time, as the moon will be around 30,400km further from the Earth while the sun’s diameter will be around 5% larger

Even on Earth, the diversity of eclipses familiar to people today is a temporary (on a geological time scale) phenomenon.
Hundreds of millions of years in the past, the Moon was closer to the Earth and therefore apparently larger, so every solar eclipse was total and there were no annular eclipses.

Solar corona during totality. By M. Druckmüller via NASA

Over a billion years in the future, the Moon will be too far away to fully occlude the Sun, and no total eclipses will occur.
Due to tidal acceleration, the orbit of the Moon around the Earth becomes about 2.2 cm more distant each year.

Total Solar Eclipse from Palu, Indonesia on March 9 2016. via Space.com

It is estimated that, in slightly less than 1.4 billion years, the distance from the Earth to the Moon will have increased by 30,400 km.
During that period, the apparent angular diameter of the Moon will decrease in size, meaning that it will no longer be able to completely cover the Sun’s disk as seen from the Earth. This will be true even when the Moon is at perigee, and the Earth at aphelion.

A solar eclipse like on August 21 2017 across the USA. via Time and Date

Moreover, the Sun is increasing in diameter by about 5% per billion years.
Therefore, the last total solar eclipse on Earth will occur about six hundred million years from now.

http://strangesounds.org/2017/08/final-totality-final-total-solar-eclipse-will-be-in-600-million-years-time-as-the-moon-will-be-around-30400km-further-from-the-earth-while-the-suns-diameter-will-be-around-5-larger.html

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Dial a Perigee Moon

Today's Moon as you can see it tonight in the sky is also Perigee! Be Safe be Good!

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Tidally-Locked Planets More Common than Previously Thought, Astronomer Says

Dr. Rory Barnes, an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrobiology Program at the University of Washington, arrived at this finding by questioning the long-held assumption that only those stars that are much smaller and dimmer than our Sun could host tidally-locked planets.
Tidal locking results when there is no side-to-side momentum between a body in space and its gravitational partner and they become fixed in their embrace.
Tidally-locked bodies such as the Earth and the Moon are in synchronous rotation, meaning that each takes exactly as long to rotate around its own axis as it does to revolve around its host star or gravitational partner.
The Moon takes 27 days to rotate once on its axis, and 27 days to orbit the Earth once.
Earth’s only permanent natural satellite is thought to have been created by an object the size of Mars, known as Theia, slamming into the proto-Earth at an angle that set the world spinning initially with approximately 12-hour days.
“The possibility of tidal locking is an old idea, but nobody had ever gone through it systematically,” Dr. Barnes said.
“In the past, researchers tended to use that 12-hour estimation of Earth’s rotation period to model exoplanet behavior, asking, for example, how long an Earth-like exoplanet with a similar orbital spin might take to become tidally locked.”
“What I did was say, maybe there are other possibilities — you could have slower or faster initial rotation periods.”
“You could have planets larger than Earth, or planets with eccentric orbits — so by exploring that larger parameter space, you find that in fact the old ideas were very limited, there was just one outcome there,”
He said: “planetary formation models, however, suggest the initial rotation of a planet could be much larger than several hours, perhaps even several weeks.”
“And so when you explore that range, what you find is that there’s a possibility for a lot more exoplanets to be tidally locked.”
“For example, if Earth formed with no moon and with an initial ‘day’ that was 4 days long, one model predicts Earth would be tidally locked to the Sun by now.”
The results of this work suggest that the process of tidal locking is a major factor in the evolution of most of the potentially habitable exoplanets to be discovered in the near future.
Being tidally locked was once thought to lead to such extremes of climate as to eliminate any possibility of life, but astronomers have since reasoned that the presence of an atmosphere with winds blowing across a planet’s surface could mitigate these effects and allow for moderate climates and life.
“I also considered the planets that will likely be discovered by NASA’s next planet-hunting satellite, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and found that every potentially habitable planet it will detect will likely be tidally locked,” Dr. Barnes said.
The results will be published in the journal Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, but have been published on arXiv.org ahead of time.


http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/tidally-locked-planets-05135.html

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Lunar dynamo’s lifetime extended by at least 1 billion years

Findings suggest two mechanisms may have powered the moon’s ancient churning, molten core.

New evidence from ancient lunar rocks suggests that an active dynamo once churned within the molten metallic core of the moon, generating a magnetic field that lasted at least 1 billion years longer than previously thought. Dynamos are natural generators of magnetic fields around terrestrial bodies, and are powered by the churning of conducting fluids within many stars and planets.
In a paper published today in Science Advances, researchers from MIT and Rutgers University report that a lunar rock collected by NASA’s Apollo 15 mission exhibits signs that it formed 1 to 2.5 billion years ago in the presence of a relatively weak magnetic field of about 5 microtesla. That’s around 10 times weaker than Earth’s current magnetic field but still 1,000 times larger than fields in interplanetary space today.

Several years ago, the same researchers identified 4-billion-year-old lunar rocks that formed under a much stronger field of about 100 microtesla, and they determined that the strength of this field dropped off precipitously around 3 billion years ago. At the time, the researchers were unsure whether the moon’s dynamo — the related magnetic field — died out shortly thereafter or lingered in a weakened state before dissipating completely.
The results reported today support the latter scenario: After the moon’s magnetic field dwindled, it nonetheless persisted for at least another billion years, existing for a total of at least 2 billion years.
Study co-author Benjamin Weiss, professor of planetary sciences in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), says this new extended lifetime helps to pinpoint the phenomena that powered the moon’s dynamo. Specifically, the results raise the possibility of two different mechanisms — one that may have driven an earlier, much stronger dynamo, and a second that kept the moon’s core simmering at a much slower boil toward the end of its lifetime.
“The concept of a planetary magnetic field produced by moving liquid metal is an idea that is really only a few decades old,” Weiss says. “What powers this motion on Earth and other bodies, particularly on the moon, is not well-understood. We can figure this out by knowing the lifetime of the lunar dynamo.”
Weiss’ co-authors are lead author Sonia Tikoo, a former MIT graduate student who is now an assistant professor at Rutgers; David Shuster of the University of California at Berkeley; Clément Suavet and Huapei Wang of EAPS; and Timothy Grove, the R.R. Schrock Professor of Geology and associate head of EAPS.
Apollo’s glassy recorders
Since NASA’s Apollo astronauts brought back samples from the lunar surface, scientists have found some of these rocks to be accurate “recorders” of the moon’s ancient magnetic field. Such rocks contain thousands of tiny grains that, like compass needles, aligned in the direction of ancient fields when the rocks crystallized eons ago. Such grains can give scientists a measure of the moon’s ancient field strength.
Until recently, Weiss and others had been unable to find samples much younger than 3.2 billion years old that could accurately record magnetic fields. As a result, they had only been able to gauge the strength of the moon’s magnetic field between 3.2 and 4.2 billion years ago.
“The problem is, there are very few lunar rocks that are younger than about 3 billion years old, because right around then, the moon cooled off, volcanism largely ceased and, along with it, formation of new igneous rocks on the lunar surface,” Weiss explains. “So there were no young samples we could measure to see if there was a field after 3 billion years.”
There is, however, a small class of rocks brought back from the Apollo missions that formed not from ancient lunar eruptions but from asteroid impacts later in the moon’s history. These rocks melted from the heat of such impacts and recrystallized in orientations determined by the moon’s magnetic field.
Weiss and his colleagues analyzed one such rock, known as Apollo 15 sample 15498, which was originally collected on Aug. 1, 1971, from the southern rim of the moon’s Dune Crater. The sample is a mix of minerals and rock fragments, welded together by a glassy matrix, the grains of which preserve records of the moon’s magnetic field at the time the rock was assembled.
“We found that this glassy material that welds things together has excellent magnetic recording properties,” Weiss says.
Baking rocks
The team determined that the rock sample was about 1 to 2.5 billion years old — much younger than the samples they previously analyzed. They developed a technique to decipher the ancient magnetic field recorded in the rock’s glassy matrix by first measuring the rock’s natural magnetic properties using a very sensitive magnetometer.
They then exposed the rock to a known magnetic field in the lab, and heated the rock to close to the extreme temperatures in which it originally formed. They measured how the rock’s magnetization changed as they increased the surrounding temperature.
“You see how magnetized it gets from getting heated in that known magnetic field, then you compare that field to the natural magnetic field you measured beforehand, and from that you can figure out what the ancient field strength was,” Weiss explains.
The researchers did have to make one significant adjustment to the experiment to better simulate the original lunar environment, and in particular, its atmosphere. While the Earth’s atmosphere contains around 20 percent oxygen, the moon has only imperceptible traces of the gas. In collaboration with Grove, Suavet built a customized, oxygen-deprived oven in which to heat the rocks, preventing them from rusting while at the same time simulating the oxygen-free environment in which the rocks were originally magnetized.
“In this way, we finally have gotten an accurate measurement of the lunar field,” Weiss says.
From ice cream makers to lava lamps
From their experiments, the researchers determined that, around 1 to 2.5 billion years ago, the moon harbored a relatively weak magnetic field, with a strength of about 5 microtesla — two orders of magnitude weaker than the moon’s field around 3 to 4 billion years ago. Such a dramatic dip suggests to Weiss and his colleagues that the moon’s dynamo may have been driven by two distinct mechanisms.
Scientists have proposed that the moon’s dynamo may have been powered by the  Earth’s gravitational pull. Early in its history, the moon orbited much closer to the Earth, and the Earth’s gravity, in such close proximity, may have been strong enough to pull on and rotate the rocky exterior of the moon. The moon’s liquid center may have been dragged along with the moon’s outer shell, generating a very strong magnetic field in the process.
It’s thought that the moon may have moved sufficiently far away from the Earth by about 3 billion years ago, such that the power available for the dynamo by this mechanism became insufficient. This happens to be right around the time the moon’s magnetic field strength dropped. A different mechanism may have then kicked in to sustain this weakened field. As the moon moved away from the Earth, its core likely sustained a low boil via a slow process of cooling over at least 1 billion years.
“As the moon cools, its core acts like a lava lamp — low-density stuff rises because it’s hot or because its composition is different from that of the surrounding fluid,” Weiss says. “That’s how we think the Earth’s dynamo works, and that’s what we suggest the late lunar dynamo was doing as well.”
The researchers are planning to analyze even younger lunar rocks to determine when the dynamo died off completely.
“Today the moon’s field is essentially zero,” Weiss says. “And we now know it turned off somewhere between the formation of this rock and today.”
This research was supported, in part, by NASA.

http://news.mit.edu/2017/lunar-dynamo-lifetime-extended-least-1-billion-years-0809

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Planets Today

The above chart shows the orbit position of our planets today 8th August 2017

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Planets tomorrow 3rd August 2017

Tomorrow 3rd August is a day where Uranus has turned station Retrograde, actually from today. We have Lunar Apogee and the Moon is trine to Jupiter. Uranus station always givs us something to remember so watch out for persistent Uranus behaviour...
Dont be shocked expect it and Be Safe Be Good!

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August 2017: Notable Planetary Considerations

Date: 1^st August 2017
Period Covered: 1^st -31^st August 2017

This is our TWENTIETH brief  bulletin covering the period of 1st-31st August 2017 covering a summary of all the predictions already published but they are being brought together in this bulletin.

August is going to be very busy month earthquake wise. There are plenty of forces to consider when trying to see their influence across the globe. This month as far as concerned events and aspects , is probably the busiest month of the year. This month is unique within the year 2017, and takes this position by examining the planetary highlights seen in the August skies which can be listed here below. Just to give you a summary, this month we have: Uranus Station,  follows a Lunar Eclipse, then Mercury Station, then a Solar Eclipse, finally followed by Saturn Station. There are plenty of others aspects to consider.

The first to note is that during 1^st -10^th August, the aspect JUPITER SQUARE PLUTO holds.

1:  GEOCENTRIC VIEW

1st August 2017 Moon Trine Chiron, Quincunx Uranus       

2^nd August 2017 URANUS Station Retrograde, Uranus on MAX declination

3^rd August 2017  Lunar APOGEE, Moon trine Jupiter

4^th August 2017  Moon opposite Venus, Jupiter Square Pluto

5^th August 2017  Moon MIN Declination, MARS Apogee, Sun quincunx Neptune,  sesquiquadrate Chiron

6^th August 2017  VENUS on MAX Declination, Moon Square Uranus,

                           Moon Trine Chiron semisquare Neptune

7^th August 2017  Moon Opposite Sun, LUNAR ECLIPSE, Moon opposite Mars Venus and Ceres

9^th August 2017    Sun quincunx Pluto

10^th August 2017  Mercury sextile Venus, Mars quincunx Neptune, Sun sextile Jupiter

11^th August 2017  Uranus semisquare Neptune

12^th August 2017  MERCURY STATION Retro, Venus trine Neptune

13^th August 2017  Sun trine Saturn, Black Moon

14^th August 2017  Venus semi sextile Mars, Moon sextile Neptune

15^th August 2017  Moon Square SUN, Venus opposite Pluto, Moon sextile Chiron

16^th August 2017  Mercury MIN Declination, Mars quincunx Pluto

17^th August 2017  Sun conjunct N Node.

18^th August 2017  LUNAR MAX Declination, Moon sextile Mercury, Venus, Ceres,

                             quincunx Black Moon

19^th August 2017  LUNAR Perigee, Sun quincunx Chiron

20^th August 2017  Sun trine Uranus

21^th August 2017  Moon conjunct N Node. SOLAR ECLIPSE, Sun trine Uranus. Jupiter

                              sextile Saturn and Black Moon

22^th August 2017  Moon Conjunct SUN, Mars trine Black Moon, Saturn

23^th August 2017  Moon square Saturn, Bl. Moon

24^th August 2017 Mercury Perigee , Venus trine Chiron, Venus Square Uranus, trine  Chiron sesquiquadrate Neptune

25^th August 2017 SATURN STATION Pro,

26^th August 2017  MARS Conj. NNode, Sun conjunct Mercury

27^th August 2017  Mercury Conjunct Sun, Moon trine Neptune, Moon semisquare Saturn

28^th August 2017  Moon square Mars, Mercury semisextile Venus

29^th August 2017  Moon Square Sun, Sun semisquare Jupiter

30^th August 2017  Lunar Apogee

31^st August 2017   Moon conj.Saturn, Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn

2: HELIOCENTRIC

ALL MONTH we have present the aspects as a Background.

• 1)      JUPITER---SUN---URANUS Alignment  and
• 2)      SATURN---SQUARE---CHIRON, 
• 3)      CHIRON SEMISEXTILE URANUS
• 4)      SATURN---TRINE---URANUS.

1st August 2017         

2^nd August 2017 EARTH Semisquare Saturn and Chiron

3^rd August 2017 

4^th August 2017  EARTH semisextile Neptune, Mercury sesquisquare Mars

5^th August 2017   

6^th August 2017  EARTH semisquare Mercury and Black Moon

7^th August 2017  EARTH semisquare Mercury and Black Moon, LUNAR ECLIPSE

8^th August 2017  EARTH semisquare Mercury and Black Moon

9^th August 2017 

10^th August 2017  EARTH semisextile Pluto

11^th August 2017 

12^th August 2017 

13^th August 2017  URANUS-Moon-EARTH Alignment

14^th August 2017  EARTH Square VENUS and semisextile MERCURY

15^th August 2017  EARTH Square VENUS and semisextile MERCURY

16^th August 2017  EARTH Square VENUS and semisextile MERCURY, Jup Sq. Mercury

17^th August 2017  EARTH Square VENUS and semisextile MERCURY

18^th August 2017  EARTH sextile Uranus and SATURN and semisquare Black Moon

19^th August 2017  EARTH sextile Uranus and SATURN and semisquare Black Moon, VENUS-MOON-EARTH alignment

20^th August 2017  EARTH Trine JUPITER, EARTH-MOON-PARTIAL SUN-MARS  alignment

21^th August 2017  EARTH Trine JUPITER. SOLAR ECLIPSE, EARTH-MOON-MARS  Alignemnt

22^th August 2017  EARTH Trine JUPITER EARTH semisextile Black Moon,                    NEPTUNE-EARTH-MOON-partial MERCURY Alignment

23^th August 2017  EARTH semisextile Black Moon, EARTH-MOON-MERCURY  Alignemnt

24^th August 2017  EARTH-MOON-JUPITER Alignment

25^th August 2017 

26^th August 2017 

27^th August 2017 

28^th August 2017  EARTH-MERCURY-SUN Alignemnt

29^th August 2017 EARTH-MOON-SATURN alignment

30^th August 2017 

31^th August 2017 

   

This is a month we expect very strong earthquakes across the globe.

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The Sun and Moon Today.

Not a single sunspot today!

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The Moon Today

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Earth Likes Schumann's Music

Schumann Resonances seem to be triggered again! Not as sharp this time but strong enough!. Lets see if we have some activity later on tonight.
[Note: The Schumann resonances (SR) are a set of spectrum peaks in the extremely low frequency (ELF) portion of the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum. Schumann resonances are global electromagnetic resonances, generated and excited by lightning discharges in the cavity formed by the Earth's surface and the ionosphere.]

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Rare Planetary Alignments Today 25th July 2017.

We have created this solar system chart for today's planets and we show you the heliocentric view of the planets today. We see tight alignments between

• Uranus-Venus-Sun-Jupiter  (Mercury is not aligned really although some include it)
• Earth-Sun-Mars and the less wel known
• Ceres-Sun-Saturn

The last time these planets were in tight alignment which is visible diagonally from Earth in the sky, was 29th october 1910,  over 100 years back. Similar alignments we had in 1915, 1955 and 1966.

I will leave it to you to see if those dates were significant enough or not.
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PLANETS TODAY, 23rd July 2017.

NEW MOON Today and at Max Declination, as shown in a post yesterday, we can just see the Moon in the above chart between Earth and the Sun, aligned to Mars. The other aspects are shown also for clarity. Make the most of it today, Be Safe Be Good!

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Planets Today (13th July)

Some of the major alignments can be seen in the chart above where we see a Heliocentric view of the planetary system.
a) JUPITER--SUN-- URANUS alignment
b) EARTH--SUN--MARS
c) SATURN--EARTH--VENUS
d) JUPITER--EARTH--NEPTUNE (nearly)

The above four can be seen easily above. Other angular aspects are not displayed.

Above we see SATURN--EARTH--VENUS from another angle.

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New 'hot Jupiter' with short orbital period discovered

The TRES RV measurements of KELT-20b with the best fit model shown in red.

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new "hot Jupiter" exoplanet with a short orbital period of just three and a half days. The newly detected giant planet, designated KELT-20b, circles a rapidly rotating star known as HD 185603 (or KELT-20). The finding was presented in a paper published July 5 on arXiv.org.

The new planet was identified by a group of researchers led by Michael Lund of the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The astronomers observed HD 185603 using the KELT-North telescope in Arizona to identify the initial transit signal of a potential planet. The observations were made as part of the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) survey, which is dedicated to searching for transiting exoplanets around bright stars.

The observational campaign was carried out from May to November 2014, and allowed the scientists to identify KELT-20b as an exoplanet candidate. Afterwards, the researchers analyzed archival data and conducted follow-up observations and high-resolution imaging of the object, which resulted in confirming the planetary status of KELT-20b.

"We identified the initial transit signal in KELT-North survey data. Archival and follow-up photometry, the Gaia parallax, radial velocities, Doppler tomography, and adaptive optics imaging were used to confirm the planetary nature of the companion and characterize the system," the authors wrote in the paper.

According to the study, KELT-20b has a radius of about 1.73 Jupiter radii and a maximum mass of 3.5 Jupiter masses. It orbits its host every 3.47 days at a distance of approximately 0.05 AU. The planet's equilibrium temperature is about 2,261 K.

The derived parameters of KELT-20b indicate that is belongs to group of planets known as "hot Jupiters." These exoworlds are similar in characteristics to the solar system's biggest planet, with orbital periods of less than 10 days. They have high surface temperatures, as they orbit their host stars very closely.

The researchers emphasized that the newly discovered planetary system is extraordinary in several ways and that the planet itself is unusual when compared to other "hot Jupiters."

"The KELT-20 system represents one of the most extreme transiting hot Jupiter systems, and indeed, one of the most extreme transiting exoplanet systems yet discovered by several measures. The host star is both exceptionally bright (V ∼ 7.6), and exceptionally hot (Teff ~ 8,700 K). It is only the sixth A star known to host a transiting giant companion. The planet itself is on a relatively short period orbit of P ~ 3.5 days, and thus receives an extreme amount of stellar insolation, resulting in an estimated equilibrium temperature of ∼ 2,250 K," the team concluded.

They added that KELT-20b is a great example of a "hot Jupiter" suffering from extreme stellar irradiation, particularly in ultraviolet wavelengths. Therefore, the planet is an excellent target for detailed follow-up observations and characterization.

 https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.01518

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-hot-jupiter-short-orbital-period.html#jCp

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Moon Today!

Today the Moon is Waning Gibbous 90%, and it is stil very bright at night time. The notable today is the conjunction with South Node in Aquarius, and quincunx to Mars.

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Meteor with explosive power of TEN cruise missiles has struck the Moon

A METEOR with the explosive power of TEN cruise missiles has struck the Moon, sparking a massive explosion visible with the naked eye.

Now, NASA warns we could be next!

The 56,000 mph collision was caused by a space rock weighing no more than 88 lbs (40 kilos). The gigantic blast was captured by NASA scientists highlighting the catastrophic danger planet earth faces from similar space bolides.
Despite the space rock’s tiny proportions, the impact damage was colossal and the explosion shone with the brightness of a magnitude 4 star.

The impact damage of the moon meteor was colossal and the explosion shone with the brightness of a magnitude 4 star

A similar strike against a city on earth would create a crater 65 feet (20 meters) deep and create a devastating kill zone equivalent to TEN Tomahawk cruise missile striking in exactly the same place. Experts fear the death toll would run into thousands.

Moon vs Earth

Unlike the Moon the Earth has a protective atmosphere meaning most space debris burns up before it can impact.

Chelyabinsk was the strongest meteor explosion since the Tunguska event in Siberia

But bigger meteors sometimes get through like most recently at Chelyabinsk in Russia where a 20 metre asteroid travelling at 43,000 mph breached the atmosphere and exploded with the power of 33 Hiroshimas.

The biggest explosion on the Moon

A scientist reports: “For the past eight years NASA has been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteors. They’ve just seen the biggest explosion in the history of the programme. It exploded in a flash 10 times as bright as anything we’ve seen before. Anyone looking at the Moon at the moment of impact could have seen the explosion without telescope.
The first asteroid discovered was Ceres in 1801. There are currently over 600,000 known asteroids in our solar system. Most asteroids are found orbiting in the Asteroid Belt, a series of rings located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Those in that pass the Earth are called Near-Earth objects.

The Chelyabinsk meteor is the largest known natural object to have entered Earth’s atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska meteor, which destroyed a wide, remote, forested, and very sparsely populated area of Siberia.
NASA is so concerned about the possibility of an asteroid strike ending all life on earth it has started the first design phase of a spacecraft known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) which will be used to redirect an asteroid’s path.

http://strangesounds.org/2017/07/we-could-be-next-a-meteor-with-the-explosive-power-of-ten-cruise-missiles-has-struck-the-moon.html

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Planets today 7th July 2017.

Today's major aspect, one which also will be with us ALL July. So this is one to get familiar with or we will be uncomfortable.  JUPITER-SUN-URANUS alignment and SATURN nicely dividing the arc 60-30 degrees..... Yes it can cause powerful earthquakes.

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Which ONE planetary aspect is going to be with us all JULY ?

HELIOCENTRIC VIEW:
There is an aspect I could call it background aspect which will hang around with us all July.
 From 1st July to 31st July this aspect holds to within one degree. As can be seen from the chart above this is JUPITER OPPOSITE URANUS and SATURN at the same time TRINE with URANUS and sextile with JUPITER.
This aspect will be perturbed throughout JULY and we will get earthquakes from imbalances in the forces.
On 4th July, we have another aspect JOINING in this is MERCURY-SUN-NEPTUNE opposition, as shown below:

On 7th July see below, CHIRON-SATURN-MERCURY aspect square, and MERCURY -SUN-CHIRON opposition. Important date this is.

On 15th JULY we have a notable aspect, the fact that JUPITER aligns with MERCURY and we have
MERCURY --JUPITER---SUN--URANUS alignment

On 17th JULY, we have another significant alignment (see below), where EARTHis SQUARE with BOTH SATURN and URANUS.

Towards the later part of the month, we approach 27th July, where we have MARS coming in play. MARS-SUN-EARTH Opposition becomes prominent in addition.

Finally, on 29th July, VENUS comes into play.  Venus conjuncts Uranus, and both TRINE Saturn, in the backround aspect mentioned at the beginning, to imbalace it and cause earthquakes. With this the month of July will end. Be Safe Be Good!

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