Sun Eruption That May Have Spawned Zombie Satellite Identified
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Wed Jul 14, 11:58 AM
by Zoe Macintosh
SPACE.com Staff Writer
Wed Jul 14, 8:15 am ET
Scientists have identified a massive eruption from the sun in April that reached all the way to Earth and may be responsible for knocking out a satellite, creating a so-called "zombie satellite."
The huge explosion of plasma and magnetic energy, called as a coronal mass ejection (CME), occurred on April 3 and was observed by NASA's sun-watching STEREO spacecraft, according to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The laboratory released new images of the solar storm last week.
The solar storm appears to have disabled the Intelsat communications satellite Galaxy 15, NRL officials said. Galaxy 15 lost contact with its ground controllers on April 5 and has been drifting around Earth ever since.
Solar storms are known to put satellites at risk. The charged particles in a storm can short out electrical equipment.
The observations suggest the coronal mass ejection flung material away from the sun at a phenomenal 1,000 kilometers per second. The solar eruption was moving at 2.2 million mph (3.6 million kph) while it was still close to the sun on April 3. It then slowed down to about 700 kilometers per second (1.5 million mph or 2.5 million kph) when it reached Earth on April 5.
There is an odd twist to the Galaxy 15 satellite failure. While the satellite has stopped communicating with its ground control center, its C-band telecommunications payload (which provided broadcast services to customers) is stuck on, earning it the "zombie satellite" nickname.
Coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, are powerful eruptions of plasma and magnetic energy from the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona," NRL officials wrote in the July 7 statement. "When these sudden outbursts are directed toward Earth, they can have both breathtakingly beautiful and potentially damaging effects." [Amazing new sun photos.]
The study of the April 3 coronal mass ejection event was performed using NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), a set of twin spacecraft on opposite sides of Earth that continuously watch the sun in what produces a stereo view, due to the wide separate of the probes in space.
The unique lateral views provided by STEREO were ideal for studying the kinematics and morphology of the developing event, said Russell Howard, the STEREO mission's principal investigator at the Naval Research Laboratory.
Three-dimensional reconstruction of the evolving cloud of electrified gas showed its form to be a crescent-shaped "flux rope" with a shock wave driven in front.
Prior awareness that the coronal mass ejection was headed straight for Earth came from the NRL-developed coronagraph aboard the SOHO solar observatory, which is located at a spot between the Earth and sun. That Large Angle Coronograph-Spectrograph (LASCO) instrument on SOHO observed a "halo" around the sun formed by the expanding and approaching solar eruption, NRL officials said.
Meanwhile, the now-aimless electronic signal from Galaxy 15 has forced other communications satellites to conduct evasive maneuvers from time to time to avoid signal interference. But the chances of the Galaxy 15 spacecraft hitting another satellite are so remote, they are non-existent, Intelsat officials have said. This month, Galaxy 15 will be flying near two other Intelsat satellites (Galaxy 13 and Galaxy 14).
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If you wish to prepare, simply choose to truly live by the following.
May God Bless Us.
‘“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.’
—Matthew 22:34-40
I'm going to prepare by thinking this will be another in a long line of failed "End of the World" predictions.
did you carve up angel luv and eat her?If you wish to prepare, simply choose to truly live by the following.
May God Bless Us.
‘“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.’
—Matthew 22:34-40
go bake your clams...
CME's happen all the time, lefty. There are plenty of other reasons to believe 2012 is going down. But cme's are pussy .
Bigzak... Take your bible passages and shove them up your ass. Thanks.
Now what good would they do there smart guy?
They'd probably help to loosen and soften your stool you in psycho
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As for 2012, I've heard everything from the galactic alignment and the super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy causing some major chaos, to the return of the dwarf star, aka planet x causing some major trouble for us.
I don't know about that stuff.
Maybe the scientists and most knowledgeable on this site can give their two cents.
me a psycho?
I'm not the one worshiping a cow lil buddy.
am I exhibiting bovine worship? I am a cow but I am agnostic.me a psycho?
I'm not the one worshiping a cow lil buddy.
And I am closer to gnostic. Good to make your acquaintance my friend.
I prefer True Christian though.
God has saved you once again
God high. Put down the pipe, son.
Zombies!!!!!
Actually, putting the marijuana pipe is what I did. Marijuana was quite the deterrent to my spiritual awakening.
When you ask me to come down from my 'God high', do you not realize that you are asking me to turn my back on true love?
That is more representative of something a psycho would do.
Is that something you would be willing to do?
What do you love with all your heart? Are you willing to turn you back on it?
Neither am I.
I'd much rather live forever as a servant of God then live a sleepwalkers life of self-servitude.
I am free as a bird for the first time in my life. And Lord knows, by the Grace of God...I cannot and will not change.
Im looking forward to this ....
Will get rid of alot of idiots on this planet...
Not looking forward to the aftermath....
Alot more idiots will be born believing it was some gods will....
I only hope enough rational people survive to tell them why it really happened.
What did happen to angel luv? Haven't seen her in a while.
The aftermath is the best part.
Do not worry, those that are chosen will be the cream of the crop, so to speak.
I can easily see "true believers" standing out in the open accepting the "judgement of God".
Lets see how true their faith is when the "Rapture" comes. They will be hiding in holes just like sane people would.
I will hide in no hole my friend. Like I said, I am a true Christian. God's will be done.
Currently, if it was to hit the fan and the Earth as we know it is coming to an end, which it will eventually, I'm just not sure when, then I am thinking either a boat with my family, ala Noah and his Arc, or just standing on top of Enchanted Rock.
Good Day.
Better Night.
Her reaction.
The simple solution.
The result.
-ClingingMars
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