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Episode 53 Crop Circles Forecast Sudden Solar Intensity?

Episode 53 – Crop Circles Forecast Sudden Solar Intensity?

  After three months of English crop formations seeming to forecast July 7, 2009, solar activity on the Sun, the most intense sunspot activity in nearly three years of an abnormally quiet sun occurred within 48 hours of July 7. Retired astrophysicist Mike Reed talks with Earthfiles Reporter and Editor, Linda Moulton Howe, about the…
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Episode 46 - Longest Solar Minimum Since 1913

Episode 46 – Longest Solar Minimum Since 1913

  Out of 365 days in 2008, 266 were without sunspots. So far in 2009, January had 25 sunspot free days; February had 23 sun spot free days; and March had 28 sun spot free days. Solar Cycle 23 began in a May 1996 minimum, so by April 2009, it’s been thirteen years between minimums…
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