[PPRAANet] Fwd: Solar Mini-Max

[Dick-W0RAA]

I forwarded the mini-max information I had received from Joe, K8FC, to a 
friend of mine (Ted Wolfe, former high school classmate) who retired as VP of Welch's Grape Juice and is an amateur astronomer with a very well known reputation.  His web site can be viewed at www.tedwolfe.com.  Ted has exhibits at the University of Notre Dame and NASA and has given presentations at many astronomical events/conventions, etc.  

I hope you find his comments interesting.

Dick - W0RAA


Begin forwarded message:

> From: TEDSTAR1
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> Dick
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> The solar max event is not a big deal. We get one at the peak of the bell shape curve
> every 11 year cycle. That's when communication disruptions, lots of aurora etc. happen.
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> What is a big deal is that as they describe it we have a "mini-max" this time. For some
> reason we have entered what appears to be a low profile series of solar sun spot cycles. This
> is often called a Maunder's Minimum. Last time we had one it lasted 100 years and
> brought global cold - in Europe it was called the "Little Ice Age".
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> Ted
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> In a message dated 6/11/2014 6:57:06 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, dickt at w0raa.com writes:
> Ted, 
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> What's your take on all of this?  I found it to be quite interesting.  
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> Dick 
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> From: NASA Science News [mailto:noreply at nasascience.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 3:01 PM
> To: NASA Science News
> Subject: Solar Mini-Max
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> NASA Science News for June 10, 2014
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> NASA and NOAA agree: Solar Max has arrived, but this "mini Max" is not like any other solar maximum of the Space Age.
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> SCIENCECAST VIDEO: http://youtu.be/8Ha7X6dWVQE
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> FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/10jun_solarminimax/
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