EARTH CHANGES BULLETIN Weekly Update

Cosmic Watch

Monitoring The Changes In The Earth

March 17, 2008

Galaxy - Solar Activity - Solar Cycle 24  Magnetic Field - Auroras
Planets - Moon Orbital Cycles - Asteroids -
Meteors & Comets

Lunar Ephemeris Chart

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COSMIC WATCH

The Changes In
Our Sacred Body
Without these things we die, thus these things compose our true body.

Galaxy - Solar Activity - Planets - Moon - Asteroids - Meteors & Comets

 
 

 

GALACTIC PHENOMENON: Coming soon

Links to:  ALMANAC | GALLERY | EARTH MONITOR

Have not started this watch yet....

SOLAR ACTIVITY: Solar Storms, Sunspots, Ionic Wind, Magnetic Disturbances

Links to:  ALMANAC | SOLAR GALLERY | EARTH MONITOR


STANDING PREDICTION FOR SOLAR CYCLE 24:  Solar Cycle 24 has begun (as of January 2008) and may produce the most active sun of recorded history.  Its activity will peak during 2011-2014.  As solar activity gradually increases, both environmental dynamics and human behavior and emotionalism will shift into a more rapid flux of activity and reactivity.  Solar Cycle 23 engendered deep, bitter polarizations in the world, especially in Palestine, the Middle East, and vis a vis the United States, both internationally and domestically.  Rather than resolve divisions and conflict, humans accentuated them during this last Solar Cycle.  Accordingly, during the coming cycle human reactivity and tendency to fear and violence will become greater and could easily match the "historical record-breaking" which the Sun's activity is likely to produce with Sunspots, Storms, Flares, and Ionic Wind Gusts. 

 

Under this growing pressure, both the terrestrial environment and human societies will be subject to immense dynamic flux which will alter both the greater expanse of the Earth as well as the nations and the affairs of humans. Global Warming will accelerate more rapidly, mass migrations will become more frequent, more agriculture and oceanic food sources will fail, more nations will collapse (as in Africa), and the general level of violence will increase in many areas.

 

The exceptionally strong internal polarization in the U.S. against the Cabal of banksters and their oil-soaked Junta, and as well the antagonistic international polarization against the U.S., likely will be resolved by  acceleration of a chronic "half-collapse" of the current economic and political system in the U.S. This period will be marked by paralysis of politics and a chaotic period of increased repression and rebellion which gradually destroys the power of Federal agencies which have usurped far too much illegal (unconstitutional) power.

 

Likely the period will also spawn many concerted efforts to change major aspects of the constitution of the U.S. and the structure of its government.  In the short term, increased international militarism may be attempted by the intellectually and morally bankrupt Zionazi puppetmasters who manipulate and strongly influence nearly all institutions in the U.S. East Coast.  These attempts may be and probably will be made in various guises regardless of which political party "wins" the November 08 national U.S. elections. 

 

For additional information on the influence of Sunspots and Solar Activity Cycles, go to the Earth Changes Solar Gallery.  (this link not active yet).

 

Visible Sun Of March 17, 2008:  Credit: SOHO/MDI

[3-10-08 ECB]  The Sunspot Count was zero most of the past seven days but rose on March 15 and 16 to 12 on a flat line Flux Index of  70 as of March 17.  No recorded flares or CME's above Class A magnitude and the Planetary A Magnetic Index (upper atmosphere field strength) has dropped all week to a low of 5, which is about its typical low value during a peaceful Sun.  But of course more stormy solar weather is possible at any time and in fact is highly likely given the rise in the Sunspot Count which has greeted the current alignment of Jupiter and Mercury, which Venus a close accomplice.   See Planetary Alignments for longer range forecast. 

 

[3-17-08 ECB]  NASA reports probable cluster of sunspots on the farside. This is likely to increase the visible Sunspot Count in about a week and a half, just in time for the Mercury | Venus alignment (surprise, surprise).
[Holographic image credit: SOHO/MDI] 

 

[3-17-08 ECB]  Quick Solar Activity Forecast From Planetary Alignments:   As predicted last few weeks, Sunspot Activity has increased for the rapidly forming Mercury | Jupiter alignment.  This peak may fall again until about March 28 when the Count is likely to rise again for the April 3-5 alignment of Mercury and Venus.  By far the strongest peak should be for Mercury | Venus, which means that stormy weather on Earth should once again pick up energy from the ionic input.  This is probably not the Sun's season for large peaks in Solar Activity as a result of Planetary Alignments.  During the first half of the year, sunspot peaks should be about on par with most of 2007.  Solar Cycle 24 has begun, but its initial birthing activity will look like the dying days of Solar Cycle 23.  During the second half of the year, Solar Activity should noticeably accelerate as a result of planetary stimulation.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE WHICH MOST PEOPLE STILL ARE NOT GETTING:

The Sun is at minimum levels of activity.  Thus the climate patterns this year have nothing to do with solar cycles and are entirely related to global warming phenomenon produced by tectonic causes.

 

graph courtesy Jan Alvestad http://www.dxlc.com/solar/
Latest Graph: http://www.dxlc.com/solar/images/solar.gif
Daily Sunspot Numbers Are ISSN: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/DSD.txt

Sunspot Count Chart:  In this chart above the black line is the Solar Flux as measured in orbit near the Earth, the red line is the Sunspot Number and the blue line is a measure of the strength of the magnetic field in the Earth’s high atmosphere (called the Planetary A Index).

Click here for NOAA Sunspot Table For Past 30 Days

Pix of coronal holes[3-17-08 ECB] NASA reports no solar wind current and no indicated coronal holes in the Sun's atmosphere.  NASA predicts a 1%  probability of solar flares (X to M, respectively) during the next 48 hours. NASA  predicts there is only a 1% to 15% probability of major magnetic disturbances in the high latitudes during the next 48 hours. Pix Credit: NOAA

 

[2-4-08 ECB] Passage To Solar Cycle 24:    Solar Cycle 23 never gave us a  a full 30 days of 0 Sunspots but the data compiled below by Alvestad makes it fairly clear that October was the MIN month and Solar Cycle 24 began, as we pointed out here, more or less in November 2007.  (This would be according to a traditional statistical method of determining the transition point.  A newer magnetic polarity model is now being used as well and this method points toward January 2008 as the first month of Cycle 24).

Month Average solar
flux at Earth
International
sunspot number
Smoothed sunspot number
2007.09 67.1 2.4 (6.7 predicted, +0.0)
2007.10 67.4 0.9 (7.2 predicted, +0.5)
2007.11 69.6 1.7 (7.8 predicted, +0.6)
2007.12 78.5 10.1 (8.1 predicted, +0.3)
2008.01 74.3 3.4 (7.6 predicted, +0.5)
2008.02 71.1 2.1 (7.9 predicted, +0.5)

source: http://www.dxlc.com/solar/

 

For current, critical information about the past few cycles and Sunspot Cycle 24, click here.  NASA MORE OR LESS AGREES THAT SOLAR CYCLE 24 HAS BEGUN:   For more details, go to Almanac:  Cycles of the Sun

MAGNETIC DISTURBANCES
(
As Shown By Fluxgate Monitor at the University of Alaska )

[3-17-08 ECB]  Fluxgate Monitor shows not much.  It was obviously off-line for much of the past 36 hours.  This is likely to upsurge again off and on with a coming rise in Solar Activity during the next two weeks. (Always keep in mind that even during a Solar Min period, intense X class flares and CME's occasionally occur and produce intense magnetic storms in the atmosphere.)

CLICK ON GRAPH FOR EXPANDED VIEW

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Planets of the Horos Sun
(in the Fourth Age of Human Memory)

 

PLANETARY ACTIVITY: Skywatching, Planet Alignments, Moon, Asteroids

 The Inner Four Planets set inside the ring of the asteroid belt and the orbit of Jupiter. Each point of light is an actual representation of a planet, asteroid, or comet (plus the Sun of course), set within a true scale of distance as of April 1.   The positions of all numbered asteroids and all numbered comets in JPL's small-body database are shown (as of April 1, 2007 ).  Asteroids are yellow dots, comets are the pale blurry smudges.  We are looking down on the Solar System, overlooking the "North Pole" of the Earth.  As can be seen, our Solar System is a pretty busy place.

 

Courtesy Jet Propulsion Lab
Inner Solar System Orbit Diagrams
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?ss_inner

 

NIGHT SKY FOR March 17, 2008 from Hopiland:  Click for full screen sky map

 

 

IMAGE PRODUCED BY MICA, software & data from the JPL & U.S. Naval Observatory

 

If you want to learn how to follow the stars at night and get deeper into the cosmic scene of the planetary alignments, how the solar system actually works, and so forth, start using this.  It is centered for 4 AM Greenwich Tuesdays (the map is changed for each weekly update) for Arizona Mountain Time (no daylight savings- 9 pm Monday evening) at 2000 meter elevation on approximately Black Mesa, Hopi Land.  This projection is produced by U.S. Navy Observatory MICA software and Ephemeris (Ephemeris is maintained on line by JPL).  It is more or less the world standard of algorithms for precisely tracking the cosmos and the software is such a snap to use to create powerful results, I cannot resist using it.  With this you can stand on the bridge of a vessel at sea and navigate like they used to do (but no longer, its all satellite positioning now, but old habits die not at all in the navies of the world).  Hopi Land was selected as the focal point because this provides the same approximate night sky to New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and California (with a little time delay).  Sorry, you folks in the Pacific Northwest will not be able to use this very well, you need your own projection. As a rough and ready make-do, just face the South and look for the relevant items about 10 to 20 degrees lower than indicated in the chart.  Like California, expect events in the chart to be one hour earlier than your time.

 

PLANET WATCH: 

[3-17-2008] Mars is now about half way between Overhead and the western horizon at Latitude of Hopi Land, Arizona at 9 PM Hopi Land time.  Saturn and the

Waxing Moon  are very nearly directly overhead, skewed a little to the South.

 

 

PLANET ALIGNMENTS:

Links to:  ALMANAC  |  COSMIC GALLERY  |  EARTH MONITOR

 

SOLAR SYSTEM FORECAST:

For a listing of all planetary alignments and charts for 2008, click onto the 2008 Alignment  Almanac.  Sunspot and solar activity should peak generally 8 to 3 days in advance of these alignment dates but keep in mind that some times the solar peak comes in on the day or the day after the alignment.

March 18, 2008 - Mercury | Jupiter & Venus | Neptune

A great alignment just in time to produce an exceptional stormy early Spring.  Barely three weeks after the February storm whammy, another double header forms in the same quadrant as Jupiter.  This alignment may be as potent as February's.

 

March 18, 2008 - An Heliocentric Projection from Home Planet Software

 

 

LUNAR SCHEDULE:

Links to:  ALMANAC  |  COSMIC GALLERY  |  EARTH MONITOR

To quickly surmise the situation for the week, use these graphs below by clicking on their titles. Use these graphs which are drawn by MWM from JPL Ephemeris table data to find PERIGEE, DECLINATION, AND PHASE (NEW OR FULL MOON).  Once you figure out how to read them, which is not difficult, you will find these more powerful than words.  Please note that you may have to click on the pictures in the browser to instruct your browser to display them in their full size.

 

The Giant Plot allows you to see the exact dates (UTC). 

Giant Plot For Easy Viewing Day By Day
(note:  South Declination Is On The Top Side Of The Graph)
One Year Overview
(note:  South Declination Is On The Top Side Of The Graph)
Thirteen Year Overview Of Variations In The Perigee Cycle
(note:  South Declination Is On The Top Side Of The Graph)
 

For a more traditional text table of the Lunar Schedule, go to the Almanac

Declination (Dragon Cycle) and Distance (Perigee Cycle) define the strongest and most extreme moments of Lunar influence on the Earth. Distances of less than 365,000 KM indicate Perigees with the Lunar gravity field considerably stronger than average.  Declinations of 27 or 28 indicate an extreme position of the Moon over the Northern (+) or Southern Hemisphere (-). A high declination with a low distance for Perigee exerts significantly greater torque on the Earth in zones which do not usually receive so much. The "timing" of these "moments" creates "windows" of exceptional syzygy.  These relationships are best viewed in graph form.

 

[3-17-08 ECB]   The Moon is now a little past a middling Perigee and a Northern Extreme Declination (which managed to produce a few Class 6 quakes) on its way to the next Full Moon on March 21/22.  The Full Moon may bring a new surge in major quakes but since the Lunar Cycles are "out of phase" with each other, this probably will not be a notable moment in quake history.  The surge may be barely detectable from the activity level of the past five days.

 

[2-4-08 ECB]  STANDING SYZYGY ANALYSIS FOR THE YEAR.  We are currently in a period with lunar cycles becoming less and less synchronized and this disconnection will continue for several months.  After this Syzygy Window, peak seismic activity levels should continue to decline for a few months while the Lunar and Earth Orbital Cycles come out of phase with each other.  There will be a weak synchronization in May and June of 2008, then strong dis-synchronization until November 2008. November will begin a new round of synchronized Lunar cycles, with December producing the strongest synchronization of the year in a near perfect alignment with the Earth's Perihelion, during both the New Moon (Dec. 27/28) and Full Moon (Dec. 13). These then are likely months of the greatest quake events and for the most part 2008 is likely to be a "middling year" for seismic activity, perhaps even slightly diminished from 2006/2007 levels.

 

True Equator and Equinox of Date For 2008
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/aa_geocentric.pl


 

ASTEROID DATA QUOTED DIRECTLY FROM NASA 

Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones all the time.  See http://www.spaceweather.com/

On March 17, 2008 there were 944 potentially hazardous asteroids (as tabulated by NASA - no one knows how many will be tabulated but so far the total has been going up by at least one a week for the past couple of years).

 
Upcoming 2008 Earth-asteroid encounters:
Asteroid
Date(UT)
Miss Distance
Mag.
Size
2008 DH5
Mar. 5
7.1 LD
18
60 m
2008 EZ7
Mar. 9
0.4 LD
18
18 m
2008 ED8
Mar. 10
1.4 LD
12
50 m
1620 Geographos
Mar. 17
49 LD
13
3 km
2003 FY6
Mar. 21
6.3 LD
15
145 m
 

Notes: LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach.

METEOR & COMET ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM NASA