Category Archives: astronomy-Planets

Astronomy – planets: planetary revolution and rotation, emissions, fluctuations, orbital changes

When minor planets Ceres and Vesta rock the Earth into chaos

Jacques Laskar and colleagues have been leaders in the field of long term solar system planetary motion calculations. Their earlier efforts have produced calculations of the solar system motions for more than 20 million years. These motions are important because … Continue reading

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A Cycles Analysis Approach to Predicting Solar Activity

In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, “How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?” I thought for a moment about our … Continue reading

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Indian Monsoon Cycles Through The Last Twelve Million Years

This article titled Indian Monsoon Cycles Through The Last Twelve Million Years written by Shyam Murti Gupta appears in Earth Science Dta eJournal for October 2010. He writes: Although Indian monsoon mostly sets on in early June, it often deceives … Continue reading

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The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements

Reported here: This story is from the Aug. 23, 2010 issue of Stanford Report. When researchers found an unusual linkage between solar flares and the inner life of radioactive elements on Earth, it touched off a scientific detective investigation that could end … Continue reading

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Cycles in Sunspot Number Reconstruction for 11,000 Years

This analysis is based on a Sunspot number reconstruction from Radiocarbon C14 in Tree Rings by Solanki, S.K., et al.  2005, and the data was obtained from NOAA. C14 is generally accepted as being a proxy for solar activity, possibly … Continue reading

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