A CRACK IN EARTH\'S MAGNETOSPHERE: Bright auroras are dancing around the Arctic Circle on Oct 22nd as a significant crack opens in Earth\'s ...

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A CRACK IN EARTH\'S MAGNETOSPHERE: Bright auroras are dancing around the Arctic Circle on Oct 22nd as a significant crack opens in Earth\'s magnetosphere. This is the view right now from Abisko, Sweden:

\"The sky is exploding!\" says Chad Blakley of the Lights over Lapland tour guide service in Abisko. \"Our live webcam is catching a great display.\"

Cracks in Earth\'s magnetosphere are nothing to worry about. They happen all the time, especially during weeks around equinoxes. Solar wind pours through the gaps to fuel beautiful light shows. Today\'s crack has been open for more than 10 hours, sparking auroras at both ends of our planet.


https://spaceweather.com/images2022/22oct22/acrackisopening.jpg

https://lightsoverlapland.com/aurora-webcam/

https://www.iflscience.com/a-crack-opened-in-earths-magnetic-field-yesterday-and-stayed-open-for-14-hours-64372

https://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=189412

https://spaceweather.com/

 

[Fred Bloggs]

On Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 5:09:05 PM UTC-4, a a wrote:

A CRACK IN EARTH\'S MAGNETOSPHERE: Bright auroras are dancing around the Arctic Circle on Oct 22nd as a significant crack opens in Earth\'s magnetosphere. This is the view right now from Abisko, Sweden:

\"The sky is exploding!\" says Chad Blakley of the Lights over Lapland tour guide service in Abisko. \"Our live webcam is catching a great display.\"

Cracks in Earth\'s magnetosphere are nothing to worry about. They happen all the time, especially during weeks around equinoxes. Solar wind pours through the gaps to fuel beautiful light shows. Today\'s crack has been open for more than 10 hours, sparking auroras at both ends of our planet.


https://spaceweather.com/images2022/22oct22/acrackisopening.jpg

https://lightsoverlapland.com/aurora-webcam/

https://www.iflscience.com/a-crack-opened-in-earths-magnetic-field-yesterday-and-stayed-open-for-14-hours-64372

https://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=189412

https://spaceweather.com/

So what?

 

[a a]

On Saturday, 22 October 2022 at 23:23:07 UTC+2, Fred Bloggs wrote:

On Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 5:09:05 PM UTC-4, a a wrote:
A CRACK IN EARTH\'S MAGNETOSPHERE: Bright auroras are dancing around the Arctic Circle on Oct 22nd as a significant crack opens in Earth\'s magnetosphere. This is the view right now from Abisko, Sweden:

\"The sky is exploding!\" says Chad Blakley of the Lights over Lapland tour guide service in Abisko. \"Our live webcam is catching a great display.\"

Cracks in Earth\'s magnetosphere are nothing to worry about. They happen all the time, especially during weeks around equinoxes. Solar wind pours through the gaps to fuel beautiful light shows. Today\'s crack has been open for more than 10 hours, sparking auroras at both ends of our planet.


https://spaceweather.com/images2022/22oct22/acrackisopening.jpg

https://lightsoverlapland.com/aurora-webcam/

https://www.iflscience.com/a-crack-opened-in-earths-magnetic-field-yesterday-and-stayed-open-for-14-hours-64372

https://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=189412

https://spaceweather.com/
So what?

thank you for your interest

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 8:09:05 AM UTC+11, a a wrote:

A CRACK IN EARTH\'S MAGNETOSPHERE: Bright auroras are dancing around the Arctic Circle on Oct 22nd as a significant crack opens in Earth\'s magnetosphere. This is the view right now from Abisko, Sweden:

\"The sky is exploding!\" says Chad Blakley of the Lights over Lapland tour guide service in Abisko. \"Our live webcam is catching a great display.\"

Cracks in Earth\'s magnetosphere are nothing to worry about. They happen all the time, especially during weeks around equinoxes. Solar wind pours through the gaps to fuel beautiful light shows. Today\'s crack has been open for more than 10 hours, sparking auroras at both ends of our planet.

<snip>

This is nonsense. There aren\'t any \"cracks\" in Earth\'s magnosphere. The same currents are circulating in the earth\'s core that were circulating last week.

What has changed is the stream of high energy charged particles coming from the solar corona. When there are enough of them, the ones that hit the outer reaches of the earth\'s atmosphere ionise enough of it to show, and when those ionised atoms re-capture their electrons you get fluorescent emissions.

No cracks anywhere. A a may be a crackpot, but that\'s a different problem.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Fred Bloggs]

On Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 10:51:38 PM UTC-4, bill....@ieee.org wrote:

On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 8:09:05 AM UTC+11, a a wrote:
A CRACK IN EARTH\'S MAGNETOSPHERE: Bright auroras are dancing around the Arctic Circle on Oct 22nd as a significant crack opens in Earth\'s magnetosphere. This is the view right now from Abisko, Sweden:

\"The sky is exploding!\" says Chad Blakley of the Lights over Lapland tour guide service in Abisko. \"Our live webcam is catching a great display.\"

Cracks in Earth\'s magnetosphere are nothing to worry about. They happen all the time, especially during weeks around equinoxes. Solar wind pours through the gaps to fuel beautiful light shows. Today\'s crack has been open for more than 10 hours, sparking auroras at both ends of our planet.
snip

This is nonsense. There aren\'t any \"cracks\" in Earth\'s magnosphere. The same currents are circulating in the earth\'s core that were circulating last week.

It was in effect a crack by way of failing to provide its shielding properties. But that\'s a figurative description to make a dull subject less dull to the reader. It was in physical science fact a significant and localized deflection of the geomagnetic field resulting from this solar CIR blast of magnetic energy. According to people familiar with phenomenon, they happen all the time, and they close up very rapidly, this one was of unusually long duration.

https://www.iflscience.com/a-crack-opened-in-earths-magnetic-field-yesterday-and-stayed-open-for-14-hours-64372

What has changed is the stream of high energy charged particles coming from the solar corona. When there are enough of them, the ones that hit the outer reaches of the earth\'s atmosphere ionise enough of it to show, and when those ionised atoms re-capture their electrons you get fluorescent emissions.

No cracks anywhere. A a may be a crackpot, but that\'s a different problem..

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 2:19:58 PM UTC+11, Fred Bloggs wrote:

On Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 10:51:38 PM UTC-4, bill....@ieee.org wrote:
On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 8:09:05 AM UTC+11, a a wrote:
A CRACK IN EARTH\'S MAGNETOSPHERE: Bright auroras are dancing around the Arctic Circle on Oct 22nd as a significant crack opens in Earth\'s magnetosphere. This is the view right now from Abisko, Sweden:

\"The sky is exploding!\" says Chad Blakley of the Lights over Lapland tour guide service in Abisko. \"Our live webcam is catching a great display.\"

Cracks in Earth\'s magnetosphere are nothing to worry about. They happen all the time, especially during weeks around equinoxes. Solar wind pours through the gaps to fuel beautiful light shows. Today\'s crack has been open for more than 10 hours, sparking auroras at both ends of our planet.
snip

This is nonsense. There aren\'t any \"cracks\" in Earth\'s magnosphere. The same currents are circulating in the earth\'s core that were circulating last week.

It was in effect a crack by way of failing to provide its shielding properties. But that\'s a figurative description to make a dull subject less dull to the reader. It was in physical science fact a significant and localized deflection of the geomagnetic field resulting from this solar CIR blast of magnetic energy. According to people familiar with phenomenon, they happen all the time, and they close up very rapidly, this one was of unusually long duration.

https://www.iflscience.com/a-crack-opened-in-earths-magnetic-field-yesterday-and-stayed-open-for-14-hours-64372

It\'s still nonsense.

\"The crack in the magnet field was created by a rare phenomenon called a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) from the Sun. CIRs are large-scale plasma structures generated in the low and mid-latitude regions of the heliosphere – the region surrounding the Sun that includes the solar magnetic field and the solar winds – when fast and slow-moving streams of solar wind interact.\"

In other words the large mass of charged particles ejected from the solar corona were rotating and generating their own magnetic field, which did interact with the earth\'s magnetic field.

It didn\'t \"crack\" the earth\'s magnetic field. It just delivered a lot of charged particles, which happened to be carrying their own magnetic field with them which did blend with the earth\'s magnetic field, distorting it to some extent, but without fracturing anything. English language science journalism frequently sucks - the journalists don\'t know much about what they are talking about - and this is a pretty revolting example of it.

What has changed is the stream of high energy charged particles coming from the solar corona. When there are enough of them, the ones that hit the outer reaches of the earth\'s atmosphere ionise enough of it to show, and when those ionised atoms re-capture their electrons you get fluorescent emissions.

No cracks anywhere. A a may be a crackpot, but that\'s a different problem.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Fred Bloggs]

On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 12:08:22 AM UTC-4, bill....@ieee.org wrote:

On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 2:19:58 PM UTC+11, Fred Bloggs wrote:
On Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 10:51:38 PM UTC-4, bill....@ieee.org wrote:
On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 8:09:05 AM UTC+11, a a wrote:
A CRACK IN EARTH\'S MAGNETOSPHERE: Bright auroras are dancing around the Arctic Circle on Oct 22nd as a significant crack opens in Earth\'s magnetosphere. This is the view right now from Abisko, Sweden:

\"The sky is exploding!\" says Chad Blakley of the Lights over Lapland tour guide service in Abisko. \"Our live webcam is catching a great display.\"

Cracks in Earth\'s magnetosphere are nothing to worry about. They happen all the time, especially during weeks around equinoxes. Solar wind pours through the gaps to fuel beautiful light shows. Today\'s crack has been open for more than 10 hours, sparking auroras at both ends of our planet.
snip

This is nonsense. There aren\'t any \"cracks\" in Earth\'s magnosphere. The same currents are circulating in the earth\'s core that were circulating last week.

It was in effect a crack by way of failing to provide its shielding properties. But that\'s a figurative description to make a dull subject less dull to the reader. It was in physical science fact a significant and localized deflection of the geomagnetic field resulting from this solar CIR blast of magnetic energy. According to people familiar with phenomenon, they happen all the time, and they close up very rapidly, this one was of unusually long duration.

https://www.iflscience.com/a-crack-opened-in-earths-magnetic-field-yesterday-and-stayed-open-for-14-hours-64372
It\'s still nonsense.

\"The crack in the magnet field was created by a rare phenomenon called a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) from the Sun. CIRs are large-scale plasma structures generated in the low and mid-latitude regions of the heliosphere – the region surrounding the Sun that includes the solar magnetic field and the solar winds – when fast and slow-moving streams of solar wind interact.\"

In other words the large mass of charged particles ejected from the solar corona were rotating and generating their own magnetic field, which did interact with the earth\'s magnetic field.

It didn\'t \"crack\" the earth\'s magnetic field. It just delivered a lot of charged particles, which happened to be carrying their own magnetic field with them which did blend with the earth\'s magnetic field, distorting it to some extent, but without fracturing anything. English language science journalism frequently sucks - the journalists don\'t know much about what they are talking about - and this is a pretty revolting example of it.
What has changed is the stream of high energy charged particles coming from the solar corona. When there are enough of them, the ones that hit the outer reaches of the earth\'s atmosphere ionise enough of it to show, and when those ionised atoms re-capture their electrons you get fluorescent emissions.

No cracks anywhere. A a may be a crackpot, but that\'s a different problem.

Sounds like the sun is blowing smoke rings of rotating charged particle streams at the Earth.

\"There should be a law against that!\"

Live by the sun, die by the sun.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney