Tag Archives: 3 minutes

3.029 and 3.606 minute cycles in Solar Wind Speed

Posted on 2015/08/10 by Ray Tomes

The ACE satellite measures the solar wind speed (among other things) of particles traveling from the Sun towards the Earth. Located at the L1 libration point it is always around 1.5 million km in the direction of the Sun and … Continue reading →

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Kotov’s Method of Commensurability

Posted on 2015/08/08 by Ray Tomes

Valery Kotov and colleagues  have made much study of 160 minute oscillations in a wide variety of astronomical phenomena, but especially the Sun. In some cases he uses a commensurability measure to determine the best fit values for oscillations. The … Continue reading →

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The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements

Posted on 2010/11/17 by Ray Tomes

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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