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Title: Old Solar Cycle Returns
Post by: k4kyv on March 28, 2008, 03:41:04 PM
Solar Cycle 23, how can we miss you if you won't go away?

Barely three months after forecasters announced the beginning of new Solar Cycle 24, old Solar Cycle 23 has returned. (Actually, it never left. Read on.)

"This week, three big sunspots appeared and they are all old cycle spots," says NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. "We know this because of their magnetic polarity."

"We have two solar cycles in progress at the same time. Solar Cycle 24 has begun (the first new-cycle spot appeared in January 2008), but Solar Cycle 23 has not ended."

Strange as it sounds, this is perfectly normal...

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/28mar_oldcycle.htm?list757622


Title: Re: Old Solar Cycle Returns
Post by: W2PFY on March 30, 2008, 11:50:30 AM
Hello Don, I wonder why you haven't been awarded the title of a  "Contributing
Member"? Your probably right up there in the the top ten who post often. I'm not looking for any recognition but rather, wondering how the scoring works   ;D ;D


Title: Re: Old Solar Cycle Returns
Post by: KF1Z on March 30, 2008, 12:30:04 PM
$$$$$$


Title: Re: Old Solar Cycle Returns
Post by: W2PFY on March 30, 2008, 12:44:10 PM
Now I get it! dud, thought it was input to the board, not money, maybe that's another award  ??? ???


Title: Re: Old Solar Cycle Returns
Post by: W3SLK on March 31, 2008, 09:10:57 AM
Hey Terry, we missed you down at Timonium. When are you going to head this way?
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