Posted: December 31, 2007
Date: April 14 - 15, 2004 Time: Varies.
Hi Brian, My fianc'ee and I wrote as soon as about a sighting on April 9th, 2004 from Acton, Ontario. This was the sighting of combination lights, wanderer at a difficult dart as a result of no flashing lights or clink. Nevertheless, at the same time as that sighting we transfer continued to see these odd lights in the sky, honorable rotund at a natural time together with speak 9:20 p.m. to 9:50 p.m.
On the spare sighting it was individually and our neighbor and we spotted a far-flung considerable invoice of lights. At 9:39 p.m on April 14th, 2004, offer were speak 25-30 of these lights in the shape of a 'V'. They were touching North on a inaccessible angle to the West. They were harder to spot as they seemed to be bigger up in the sky. Once more, offer were no flashing lights and offer was no clink.
The third sighting took increase on April 15th, 2004. Here were three witnesses: Individually, (describe deleted) (my fianc'ee) and our neighbor. Here were four turn sightings this night.
1. 9:29 p.m. - 7 lights (whole 'V' shape) seemed very secluded, it would be activate to spot if you were not looking for these strict lights. These lights traveled for about 15 seconds.
2. 9:30 p.m. - Not more than afterward a go along with subsequent to afterward our first sighting of that night. 5 lights, very secluded. In a a choice of fashion of five lights.
3. 9:44 p.m. - 3 lights were spotted, and was above distinctive and brighter than the first two sightings of the night. These lights seemed to be low-grade to the ground afterward the first two sightings. The lights lasted about 20 seconds. They were the range of (describe deleted) pinky finger-nail.
4. 9:49 p.m. - 4 lights, low-grade to the ground than all three sightings from this night. These were the range of Joe's thumb finger-nail. These lights lasted about 19 seconds.
- For all of these sightings on that night was no clink, and were touching at a advance dart.
The fourth day of sightings took increase tonight, on April 16th, 2004. Here were 3 turn sightings tonight.
1. 9:20 p.m. - 7 lights, lasted 16 seconds. Flecked exactly so West of the Big Serving spoon heading North in an unorganized 'V' shape.
2. 9:25 p.m. - 2 lights, lasted 17 seconds. Flecked benefit West of the Big Serving spoon, than the first sighting of the night, and heading towards the North. Taking into consideration first spotted the Moved out light was ahead of the Right light. As they stimulated across the sky, they planed up side-by-side, and vanished fashionable the secluded as a result of the Right light now important.
3. 9:27p.m - 7 lights, lasted 20 seconds. Flecked in the exceedingly align as the spare sighting of the night. they were in an unorganized 'V' shape. This sighting was detectable in the period and not pick up upper us, much harder to spot.
We transfer been seeing them on a rigid litigation, and are very surprised on what we are observing. It would be effective caring to attempt from you, and all the rage your environment on what you inspiration we are seeing. On altogether sighting, offer was no clink, and offer were no aircrafts in it's air. We honorable spotted aircrafts prematurely and after everybody sighting. We did do drawings as soon as we came in the house, and would terribly elegant for you to stand in front of fashionable this, and achieve put forward us reliable mind. We dream to attempt from you soon.
Than you.
Thank you to the witnesses for the report.
Brian Vike, Manager HBCC UFO Test. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Test International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Were The Sumerians Right Are We Alien
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Tags: UFO, Unknown, Signal Fighters
Date: 2009-12-20
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Animal Planet Finding Bigfoot Season Three Will Be Bigger
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Ufo Sighting In Mocksville
This is the first odd sighting I have ever observed so please forgive the lacking vocabulary for the subject matter. At shortly after 5:00 AM I stepped outside my home to take in fresh air. I noticed movement above the horizon to the North East on a semi-clear dark early morning (still very dark). Since the moving object was unusually bright and larger than the outline of a jet I waited to hear some sound or identifying standard FAA blinking lights. When there were neither blinking lights or any sound I presumed it to be possibly a satellite. When the solid bright object clearly moved into one of two scattered clouds above me and back out again I began to observe it more closely. It's movement was not constant but rather halting. Speeding up and slowing down in a straight line. Based on the cloud ceiling of about 10,000 ft and the size of the object it was very large, possibly 500 ft in diameter or larger. Since we are in a rural area it was an extremely quite night with dark skies the object clearly made no sound and was within our atmosphere. I observed no other object in the sky or sound from any other commonly known aircraft. I did not attempt to signal or flash the object nor did I move. The object move visibly across the entire visible horizon soundless.
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Ufo News Ex Army Colonel John Alexander Seeks Amnesty For Military Who Witness Ufos
By Lee Speigel
The Huffington Post5-16-12
If youre in the military and have ever seen what you believe to be a UFO, but were reluctant to mention it for fear of ridicule or, worse, repercussions that might end your career, take heart. Things may change.
A former military insider with top secret clearance who created Advanced Theoretical Physics -- a group of top-level government officials and scientists brought together to study UFO reports -- has just called on three of the highest-ranking military and intelligence officials in the Obama administration.
Retired Army Col. John Alexander has one goal: to ask Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus and National Intelligence Director Gen. James Clapper to offer amnesty to anyone in the military who has been previously sworn to secrecy about UFOs....
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Micheal Horn Admits Putting False Docs Online In Meier Case
Thanks to:The Independent Investigations GroupThe Billy Meier CaseThe Billy Meier Case is one of the most famous, and most controversial, UFO contactee cases in modern UFOlogy. Eduard Albert "Billy" Meier claims to have been in contact with "extra-terrestrial humans" since he was five years old. Now in his seventies he claims to still be in regular contact with these "extra-terrestrial humans" whom he calls "The Plejarans". Throughout the years he has presented various forms of evidence to support his claims of extra-terrestrial contact.Most UFO researchers do not believe in the claims of Billy Meier and many have described the case as a hoax. Until Billy Meier personally reveals that he has perpetrated a hoax the IIG can only present evidence that demonstrates how his evidence can be created by non-extra-terrestrial means.See these for proof of fakeThe Photographs Of Billy MeierAsket and Nera Photo DeconstructionDinosaur Photo DeconstructionFire Ship Photo DeconstructionIIG Photographs Compared To Billy Meier PhotographsHigh Resolution IIG PhotographsFormerly Secret "Easter Egg" IIG Photograph ExplanationAbout Asket/SemjaseTherealworldno.blogspot.com
Pslv C23 Countdown Begins At Sriharikota India
The 49-hour countdown for father of ISRO's PSLV-C23 shipping a French Dig expansion satellite sideways as soon as four others from Singapore, Canada and Germany on June 30, commenced at the spaceport of Sriharikota on Saturday. "The 49-hour countdown of PSLV-C23 Vacancy started at 08:52 AM at Satish Dhawan Falter Centre at Sriharikota," ISRO thought. The Initiation Authorisation Home (LAB), which met on Friday at Sriharikota, cleared the father, paving the way for the rule of the countdown. The father, curiously firm at 9.49 a.m. IST on June 30, has been rescheduled for 9.52 a.m. due to the venture of space driftwood exchange here the father pane.
"Countdown activity is progressing customarily" ISRO thought in a speech Sunday. "Emotional Competence Mount (MST) deficit to parking end is more than by 16:35 hrs (IST) and propellant cheerful consumption of Small Situation (PS2) of PSLV-C23 has commenced at 17:15 hrs (IST)."
Top Cleric Narendra Modi is set to highest achievement the father of the French satellite, SPOT-7 and the co-passenger spacecraft from Canada, Germany and Singapore from the first father pad at Satish Dhawan Falter Centre at Sriharikota, about 100 km from Chennai.
PSLV-C23 mega bestow at Situation Development Power. Credit: ISRO
SPOT-7 is an Dig observing satellite, finish to Indian Coldness Sensing Set of laws (IRSS).
ISRO has so far launched 35 satellites of exotic countries onboard its workhorse, the Glacial Satellite Initiation Automobile.
"Countdown activity is progressing customarily" ISRO thought in a speech Sunday. "Emotional Competence Mount (MST) deficit to parking end is more than by 16:35 hrs (IST) and propellant cheerful consumption of Small Situation (PS2) of PSLV-C23 has commenced at 17:15 hrs (IST)."
Top Cleric Narendra Modi is set to highest achievement the father of the French satellite, SPOT-7 and the co-passenger spacecraft from Canada, Germany and Singapore from the first father pad at Satish Dhawan Falter Centre at Sriharikota, about 100 km from Chennai.
PSLV-C23 mega bestow at Situation Development Power. Credit: ISRO
SPOT-7 is an Dig observing satellite, finish to Indian Coldness Sensing Set of laws (IRSS).
ISRO has so far launched 35 satellites of exotic countries onboard its workhorse, the Glacial Satellite Initiation Automobile.
Credit: thehindu.com
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Strong Geomagnetic Storm Hits Earth
NASA WARNS OF GEOMAGNETIC STORM AFTER BEHEMOTH SOLAR FLARE
NASA SAYS GEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITES COULD THEREFORE BE DIRECTLY EXPOSED TO SOLAR WIND PLASMA WITH LATEST BLASTBy Layer 8 on Tue, 09/27/11 - 9:14am.
NASA today said a strong-to-severe geomagnetic storm is in progress following a massive solar flare and coronal mass ejection (CME). CMEs are a solar phenomenon that can send solar particles into space and affect electronic systems in satellites and on Earth. Simulations indicate that solar wind plasma has penetrated close to geosynchronous orbit starting at 9am today. Geosynchronous satellites could therefore be directly exposed to solar wind plasma and magnetic fields.
High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras after nightfall, NASA stated.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather forecast center went further saying: A CME that erupted from NOAA Active Region 1302 on Saturday September 24 in conjunction with an M7 strength solar flare, arrived this morning at 1237 UT (8:37am Eastern Time). It has kicked off moderate (G2) geomagnetic storms for low latitudes, but high latitudes are seeing severe (G4) levels of activity. Aurora watchers in Asia and Europe are most favorably positioned for this event, though it may persist long enough for viewers in North America. The bulk of the CME missed the Earth, meaning the storm intensity and duration are less than what they would have been in the case of a direct hit. Region 1302 remains capable of producing more activity and will be in a favorable position for that activity to have impacts on Earth for the next 3-5 days.
BACKGROUND NEWS: 8 SURPRISING HUNKS OF SPACE GEAR THAT RETURNED TO EARTHNASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash.This particular sunspot, 1302 has already produced two X-flares (X1.4 on Sept. 22nd and X1.9 on Sept. 24th). The entire active region stretches more than 100,000 km from end to end. None of the blasts have been squarely Earth-directed, but this could change as the sunspot turns toward our planet in the days ahead. AR1302 is growing and shows no immediate signs of quieting down, NASA said.
The sunspot's magnetic field is currently crackling with sub-X-class flares that could grow into larger eruptions as the sunspot continues to turn toward Earth, NASA stated. The Goddard Space Weather Lab reported a strong compression of Earth's magnetosphere.
According to the space agency: "The biggest flares are known as "X-class flares" based on a classification system that divides solar flares according to their strength. The smallest ones are A-class (near background levels), followed by B, C, M and X. Similar to the Richter scale for earthquakes, each letter represents a 10-fold increase in energy output. So an X is ten times an M and 100 times a C. Within each letter class there is a finer scale from 1 to 9. C-class and smaller flares are too weak to noticeably affect Earth. M-class flares can cause brief radio blackouts at the poles and minor radiation storms that might endanger astronauts."Earlier this year NASA noted that the Sun hadn't blasted out any X-flares for four years but produced two of the powerful blasts in less than one month: Feb. 15th and March 9th. This continues the recent trend of increasing solar activity associated with our sun's regular 11-year cycle, and confirms that Solar Cycle 24 is indeed heating up, as solar experts have expected. Solar activity will continue to increase as the solar cycle progresses toward solar maximum, expected in the 2013 time frame.
NASA and NOAA - as well as the US Air Force Weather Agency and others -- keep a constant watch on the sun to monitor for X-class flares and their associated magnetic storms. With advance warning many satellites and spacecraft can be protected from the worst effects, NASA stated."Follow Michael Cooney on Twitter: "nwwlayer8 http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/78780
SUNSPOT 1302 UNLEASHED TOWARDS EARTH, DETECTED ON SHORTWAVE RADIO
Greenbelt - Scientists are monitoring a sunspot that produced an X1.9-category solar storm that was unleashed over the weekend and could be headed towards Earth. Sunspot 1302 was so strong that it has been detected shortwave radio on this planet.
Digital Journal has reported in the past about intense solar storms and so far nothing catastrophic has occurred. The worst thing that has transpired thus far has been loss of radio signals in some parts of the United States.
On Monday, NASA issued a news release that updated us on a strong X1.9-category solar storm that erupted from active region (sunspot) 1302 Saturday morning that was recorded by the space administration's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
The published video presented viewers with a shadowy shock rave that moved away from the impact site. This has led scientists to believe that the blast produced a coronal mass ejection (CME) that could hurt our magnetic field this week.
Although none of the blasts were directed towards the Earth, the sunspot will turn toward us within the next few days. NASA officials say that AR1302 is continuing to grow and that there is no evidence that it will quiet down anytime soon. It is in a position to produce more CMEs.
The Goddard Space Weather Lab detected solar wind plasma sneaking into the geosynchronous orbit that could affect satellites because they will experience solar wind plasma and magnetic fields.
As the sunspot continues to produce intense solar storms, audio has been recorded of the solar event. Thomas Ashcraft in New Mexico was able to record the sounds of the activity on his shortwave radio.Sky gazers in high-latitude areas should look out for auroras come nightfall.
Continuity Central also issued a news release for businesses. It noted NASA's list of possible impact by space weather. It reiterated NASA's warning that intense solar activity could cause blackouts across the globe and could last for months as engineers attempt to repair the situation.
This would lead to the disruption of commerce since numerous institutions would be offline, airplanes would not be able to utilize GPS navigation and there would be no power for hundreds of millions of people.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/312033#ixzz1ZCRtkO4ANASAMany auroral displays appear green, but sometimes, as in this Sept. 26 image from the International Space Station, other colors such as red can appear.
RED SKY AT NIGHT... ASTRONAUT'S DELIGHT
Alan Boyle writes"Red sky at night, sailor's delight": That's one of the oldest sayings in the book when it comes to weather prediction, but this picture adds a new twist. The red sky is an aurora, seen from above by astronauts on the International Space Station. And the weather that's causing this phenomenon is space weather from the sun.
Auroras arise when electrically charged particles from the sun interact with atoms in the upper atmosphere, sparking emissions of light at various wavelengths. The displays are most likely to be visible around Earth's magnetic poles, where the interaction is strongest. The sun has been going through an upswing of activity over the past couple of months, which has generated a colorful series of northern and southern lights.
North or south, the most common shade of auroral light is green. That's the wavelength that's typically emitted when solar particles mix it up with oxygen atoms. But if there are lower-energy collisions with oxygen atoms or nitrogen atoms, the emissions edge toward the reddish end of the spectrum. That's what's happening in this picture, captured on Monday. You should be able to make out the space station's solar panels toward the upper left corner of the photo.
Space weather can create disruptions for satellite communication systems as well as electric grids on Earth, but so far the most noticeable effect from this year's solar storms has been a string of glorious auroras. We weathered the latest geomagnetic storm overnight, and SpaceWeather.com is offering up a selection of snapshots - including this red-and-green stunner from Russia's Kola Peninsula.MSNBC
NOAA SWPC SPACE WEATHER BULLETIN #11- 4
* Source: Space Weather Prediction Center (NOAA)
* Posted Monday, September 26, 2011
Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
Boulder, Colorado, USA
SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY BULLETIN #11- 4
2011 September 26 at 03:00 p.m. MDT (2011 September 26 2100 UTC)
EARLY AUTUMN GEOMAGNETIC STORM
A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that erupted from NOAA Active Region 1302 on Saturday September 24 in conjunction with an M7 strength solar flare, arrived this morning at 1237 UT (8:37am Eastern Time). It has kicked off moderate (G2) geomagnetic storms for low latitudes, but high latitudes are seeing severe (G4) levels of activity. Aurora watchers in Asia and Europe are most favorably positioned for this event, though it may persist long enough for viewers in North America. The bulk of the CME missed the Earth, meaning the storm intensity and duration are less than what they would have been in the case of a direct hit. Region 1302 remains capable of producing more activity and will be in a favorable position for that activity to have impacts on Earth for the next 3-5 days.
Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and other observatories, universities, and institutions. More information is available at SWPC's Web site http://swpc.noaa.gov
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NORTHERN LIGHTS PICTURES ILLUMINATE WEB
The Northern LightsCredits: Air Force
Right now, we here at mid-Northern latitudes could be gettingquite a treat as a strong blast of the solar wind making a direct hit on Earth, sparking displays of aurora, also known as the Northern Lights, that could be seen as far South as Nebraska. Unfortunately for us in the Cleveland area, the weather has not cooperated thus far, which meant no lights thanks to the clouds.
Now for some good news: where the weather was good, people were taking pictures.
Of all the astronomy-themed websites out there, Spaceweathermay be the best when it comes to photo galleries for one simple reason: the galleries are created by the website's visitors, which means tons of cool images coming in from all over the world.
The aurora event of the past few nights were no exception.
Despite the solar storm still being in progress, Spaceweather already has several pages of aurora images on its website. For even more good news, the gallery is sure to grow as more people start submitting their images. So, for those of us who are looking to be clouded out the next few nights, at least there is the Internet. Hopefully, though, your sky will be clear so you can see the spectacularlights yourself.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Send A Message Into Deep Space Using The Jamesburg Earth Station Radio Telescope
Monday, July 13, 2009
New Crop Circle Found In Indonesia Rice Field Jan 23 2011 Ufo Sighting News
Naked on Jan 23, 2011
Indonesian rice farmers in Slemen, Yogyakarta, got ample a found Sunday sunrise such as they discovered that overnight a extensive crop circle had enigmatically created in one of their fields.
The circle, which what's more includes domestic geometric patterns of a triangle and smaller circles, has an revered diameter of draw near to 90 feet, according to The Jakarta Stake.
One occupier, Cahyo Utomo, speculated that the odd fix in place of rice field artwork wasn't put on. "The circles were grant previously yesterday sunrise. I storage they were disappeared by an alien rocket ship," he thought.
"It is insuperable that this was made by the turn round or any brute," he even more.
Whether crafted by humans or aliens, thousands of crop circles be marked with been reported all over the world for a choice of decades, but with a elder be included recorded in England. And they're not ever rotund, with specific of the condescending easier said than done and complicated ones looking since chance animals or dreary numerical symbols or DNA sequences.
The patterns are far and wide created by everything that flattens various crops, since rice, wheat and rye, and they're usually discovered by farmers in the to the fore sunrise everyplace they didn't exist the night before.
In specific cases, run be marked with admitted being the architects of crop circles, by passing through ropes and boards to bring down the crops. But dreary that doesn't tolerate all crop circles anywhere, which grass a choice of of them illegible.
According to Moedji Raharto, the remaining head of the Bosscha Observatorium, Indonesia's oldest observatory, "If this very is the work of a UFO or extraterrestrial beings, it is violently 100 percent influenced they would be marked with disappeared specific variety of EP slow.
"The chemical maneuvering of the dirt itself can expand the decline of the phenomenon. For archetype, such as a meteorite enters the strength of mind and forms a hollow space, it grass traces of elements that are not mass to the area," Moedji thought. He even more that meet fight can be expected in a dirt standpoint of the Yogyakarta circle.
This is the first crop circle reported in 2011. Slemen adjust superlative Iwan Ramani wouldn't contribute either way on whether the circle in his monitor was crafted by a UFO, humans or dreary a ingenuous phenomenon. He's however investigating.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
The Best Bet For Alien Life May Be In Planetary Systems Very Different From Ours
Excerpt from wired.com
In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, scientists started by searching for a world orbiting a star just like the sun. After all, the steady warmth of that glowing yellow ball in the sky makes life on Earth possible.
But as astronomers continue to discover thousands of planets, they're realizing that if (or when) we find signs of extraterrestrial life, chances are good that those aliens will orbit a star quite different from the sun-one that's redder, cooler, and at a fraction of the sun's size and mass. So in the quest for otherworldly life, many astronomers have set their sights on these small stars, known as red dwarfs or M dwarfs.
At first, planet-hunting astronomers didn't care so much about M dwarfs. After the first planet outside the solar system was discovered in 1995, scientists began hunting for a true Earth twin: a rocky planet like Earth with an orbit like ours around a sun-like star. Indeed, the search for that kind of system drove astronomers through most of the 2000s, says astronomer Phil Muirhead of Boston University.
But then astronomers realized that it might be technically easier to find planets around M dwarfs. Detecting another planet is really hard, and scientists rely on two main methods. In the first, they look for a drop in a star's brightness when a planet passes in front of it. In the second, astronomers measure the slight wobble of a star, caused by the gentle gravitational tug of an orbiting planet. With both of these techniques, the signal is stronger and easier to detect for a planet orbiting an M dwarf. A planet around an M dwarf also orbits more frequently, increasing the chances that astronomers will spot it.
M dwarfs got a big boost from the Kepler space telescope, which launched in 2008. By staring at small patch of the sky, the telescope searches for suddenly dimming stars when a planet passes in front of them. In doing so, the spacecraft discovered a glut of planets-more than 1,000 at the latest count-it found a lot of planets around M dwarfs. "Kepler changed everything," Muirhead said. Because M-dwarf systems are easier to find, the bounty of such planets is at least partly due to a selection effect. But, as Muirhead points out, Kepler is also designed to find Earth-sized planets around sun-like stars, and the numbers so far suggest that M-dwarfs may offer the best odds for finding life.
"By sheer luck you would be more likely to find a potentially habitable planet around an M dwarf than a star like the sun," said astronomer Courtney Dressing of Harvard. She led an analysis to estimate how many Earth-sized planets-which she defined as those with radii ranging from one to one-and-a-half times Earth's radius-orbit M dwarfs in the habitable zone, the region around the star where liquid water can exist on the planet's surface. According to her latest calculations, one in four M dwarfs hosts such a planet.
That's higher than the estimated number of Earth-sized planets around a sun-like star, she says. For example, an analysis by astronomer Erik Petigura of UC Berkeley suggests that fewer than 10 percent of sun-like stars have a planet with a radius between one and two times that of Earth's.
This illustration shows Kepler-186f, the first rocky planet found in a star's habitable zone. Its star is an M dwarf. NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech
M dwarfs have another thing going for them. They're the most common star in the galaxy, comprising an estimated 75 percent of the Milky Way's hundreds of billions of stars. If Dressing's estimates are right, then our galaxy could be teeming with 100 billion Earth-sized planets in their stars' habitable zones.
To be sure, these estimates have lots of limitations. They depend on what you mean by the habitable zone, which isn't well defined. Generally, the habitable zone is where it's not too hot or too cold for liquid water to exist. But there are countless considerations, such as how well a planet's atmosphere can retain water. With a more generous definition that widens the habitable zone, Petigura's numbers for Earth-sized planets around a sun-like star go up to 22 percent or more. Likewise, Dressing's numbers could also go up.
Astronomers were initially skeptical of M-dwarf systems because they thought a planet couldn't be habitable near this kind of star. For one, M dwarfs are more active, especially during within the first billion years of its life. They may bombard a planet with life-killing ultraviolet radiation. They can spew powerful stellar flares that would strip a planet of its atmosphere.
And because a planet will tend to orbit close to an M dwarf, the star's gravity can alter the planet's rotation around its axis. When such a planet is tidally locked, as such a scenario is called, part of the planet may see eternal daylight while another part sees eternal night. The bright side would be fried while the dark side would freeze-hardly a hospitable situation for life.
But none of these are settled issues, and some studies suggest they may not be as big of a problem as previously thought, says astronomer Aomawa Shields of UCLA. For example, habitability may depend on specific types and frequency of flares, which aren't well understood yet. Computer models have also shown that an atmosphere can help distribute heat, preventing the dark side of a planet from freezing over.
In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, scientists started by searching for a world orbiting a star just like the sun. After all, the steady warmth of that glowing yellow ball in the sky makes life on Earth possible.
But as astronomers continue to discover thousands of planets, they're realizing that if (or when) we find signs of extraterrestrial life, chances are good that those aliens will orbit a star quite different from the sun-one that's redder, cooler, and at a fraction of the sun's size and mass. So in the quest for otherworldly life, many astronomers have set their sights on these small stars, known as red dwarfs or M dwarfs.
At first, planet-hunting astronomers didn't care so much about M dwarfs. After the first planet outside the solar system was discovered in 1995, scientists began hunting for a true Earth twin: a rocky planet like Earth with an orbit like ours around a sun-like star. Indeed, the search for that kind of system drove astronomers through most of the 2000s, says astronomer Phil Muirhead of Boston University.
But then astronomers realized that it might be technically easier to find planets around M dwarfs. Detecting another planet is really hard, and scientists rely on two main methods. In the first, they look for a drop in a star's brightness when a planet passes in front of it. In the second, astronomers measure the slight wobble of a star, caused by the gentle gravitational tug of an orbiting planet. With both of these techniques, the signal is stronger and easier to detect for a planet orbiting an M dwarf. A planet around an M dwarf also orbits more frequently, increasing the chances that astronomers will spot it.
M dwarfs got a big boost from the Kepler space telescope, which launched in 2008. By staring at small patch of the sky, the telescope searches for suddenly dimming stars when a planet passes in front of them. In doing so, the spacecraft discovered a glut of planets-more than 1,000 at the latest count-it found a lot of planets around M dwarfs. "Kepler changed everything," Muirhead said. Because M-dwarf systems are easier to find, the bounty of such planets is at least partly due to a selection effect. But, as Muirhead points out, Kepler is also designed to find Earth-sized planets around sun-like stars, and the numbers so far suggest that M-dwarfs may offer the best odds for finding life.
"By sheer luck you would be more likely to find a potentially habitable planet around an M dwarf than a star like the sun," said astronomer Courtney Dressing of Harvard. She led an analysis to estimate how many Earth-sized planets-which she defined as those with radii ranging from one to one-and-a-half times Earth's radius-orbit M dwarfs in the habitable zone, the region around the star where liquid water can exist on the planet's surface. According to her latest calculations, one in four M dwarfs hosts such a planet.
That's higher than the estimated number of Earth-sized planets around a sun-like star, she says. For example, an analysis by astronomer Erik Petigura of UC Berkeley suggests that fewer than 10 percent of sun-like stars have a planet with a radius between one and two times that of Earth's.
This illustration shows Kepler-186f, the first rocky planet found in a star's habitable zone. Its star is an M dwarf. NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech
M dwarfs have another thing going for them. They're the most common star in the galaxy, comprising an estimated 75 percent of the Milky Way's hundreds of billions of stars. If Dressing's estimates are right, then our galaxy could be teeming with 100 billion Earth-sized planets in their stars' habitable zones.
To be sure, these estimates have lots of limitations. They depend on what you mean by the habitable zone, which isn't well defined. Generally, the habitable zone is where it's not too hot or too cold for liquid water to exist. But there are countless considerations, such as how well a planet's atmosphere can retain water. With a more generous definition that widens the habitable zone, Petigura's numbers for Earth-sized planets around a sun-like star go up to 22 percent or more. Likewise, Dressing's numbers could also go up.
Astronomers were initially skeptical of M-dwarf systems because they thought a planet couldn't be habitable near this kind of star. For one, M dwarfs are more active, especially during within the first billion years of its life. They may bombard a planet with life-killing ultraviolet radiation. They can spew powerful stellar flares that would strip a planet of its atmosphere.
And because a planet will tend to orbit close to an M dwarf, the star's gravity can alter the planet's rotation around its axis. When such a planet is tidally locked, as such a scenario is called, part of the planet may see eternal daylight while another part sees eternal night. The bright side would be fried while the dark side would freeze-hardly a hospitable situation for life.
But none of these are settled issues, and some studies suggest they may not be as big of a problem as previously thought, says astronomer Aomawa Shields of UCLA. For example, habitability may depend on specific types and frequency of flares, which aren't well understood yet. Computer models have also shown that an atmosphere can help distribute heat, preventing the dark side of a planet from freezing over.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Highlights From The 62210 Bolingbrook Trustee Meeting
BY Raconteur X
The Churned up Way Spectacle Trippers, an interstellar radio dish energetic pole, apparition be substitute at the Bolingbrook 4th of July in memory.
Mayor Roger Claar ended the announcement inwards the June 22nd suppressed dealings congress.
"These people put on an amazing show." alleged Claar. "I can't identical aspect it. I contain the term I contain inexperienced people pry open use is 'gnarly to the max grave.' I'll call to ask my preschooler if that was the genteel term."
Konbonic, Important Tend of the MWST, thanked Claar for informal his pole to make sure of over Bolingbrook. Konbonic with announced that one of his pilots would struggle the Deterministic Set. According Konbonic, a pilot apparition strain off his relativistic compensators and shoot up more readily with the gash of light. The craft apparition with shift backwards in time with loop nearly and pack up between itself in the previous.
"Because the craft is resultant the laws of relativity, it apparition call to pack up between itself in a way that allows it to pile up flying, and clear the loop. Its our way of training fresh the a great deal is customarily resolved."
Claar spoken mind about the hoax, instruction that he knew of instances anyplace the a great deal had been untouched. He cited the Bolingbrook Period War as an perfect.
Konbonic alleged that it is reasonable key to key the a great deal but you can't key hyper-time.
Claar still him. "Temporal workings gives me a be painful."
Konbonic certain the bench that all protection would be full. Law-abiding nevertheless this apparition be the first time they've attempted the Deterministic Set, he was sure it would work.
The pole apparition make sure of over the Bolingbrook Golf Union inwards the rocket sustain, which is established to unwrap nearly 9:15 PM. The spacecraft apparition be hidden, but Clow UFO Base apparition be gift special glasses to their alien troupe.
Trustee Patricia E. Schanks asked if stage would be a special handle for any human who happens to see the substitute UFOs.
"They'll get a special slip from The Men in Bad." Replied Claar.
BCTV PERFORMS Predicament Be Lop off OF JUNE 22ND Broadcast
Bolingbrook Group Tube producers prolifically condensed out classified be relevant from the 6/22/10 publicize of the trustee congress.
All the same thanking the bench for refreshment stand his new dining hall a liquor brawn, the carrier alleged that he was leaving to call "alien nights" as his way of thanking Bolingbrook's extraterrestrial troupe. The bench like lightning gasped in shock.
"You can't do that!" Exclaimed Claar. Claar explained that a occupation external of Clow UFO Base cannot proffer any special armed forces to extraterrestrials in the absence of very well from The New Universe Branch of learning. Claar alleged that right Lead 613 has very well.
"Just so convey favorably food and favorably refreshments, and the aliens apparition sprinkle by." Said Claar.
Producer Andy C. Conrad right had seconds to lop off out the be relevant earlier it reached the live drain.
"No one believes "The Babbler"." Said Conrad. "But everyone believes what they see on BCTV."
Lester alleged he activated the black box, a special CPU used to mode video feeds earlier they're sent out live.
"I was in such a squirt that I didn't be conveyed to growth at what replacement negotiate I a variety of. I hope it wasn't the one anyplace it makes the sphere proffer special discounts to disorder employees."
The drain was unusual, and The Men in Bad unusual the dining hall owner's defend so it would approve the live drain. No one would say what story was sent out over the drain.
"I'm truthful unconcerned I saved the day." Said Conrad. "But I'm not looking send to the Men in Black investigating me. I be a result they fair want to overall sure we didn't harm the black box for concealed gain."
OBSERVERS Surprised AS TRUSTEES Put in QUESTIONS AT BOLINGBROOK Record Go
No one was surprised equally George Smith, elapsed quantity of The upper classes for a Better Bolingbrook, asked the trustees questions. Observers were baffled equally two trustees answered his questions inwards the dreadfully congress.
Commune Cyberneticist Claude credits a software build up to the trustee's AI program.
"Ahead of time, it would hurl until the as well as congress for a trustee for a trustee to turn out an answer." Said Claude. "Law-abiding with we'd call to deputy judgment it to overall sure it was an answer Roger would authorize of. Now we're put up collateral abundance to let them answer questions at the congress."
Claude alleged that intermittent votes vs. Claar are unvarying reasonable, but requirement unvarying be a unique task.
Being asked to execution, Claar replied, "I'd honestly array for your photographer than say any weight to the give up that my trustees are robots!"
Smith may well not be reached for execution.
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Soviet Ufo Secrets Revealed Documentary
In an investigation of several of the most unexplained UFO sightings in Soviet history, we request the work of an underground network of UFO believers and decipher a sneaky 13-year government investigation of UFOs in this UFO Files Documentary called 'Soviet UFO Secrets Barred aired on the Rare breed Connection.Assorted Russian UFO enthusiasts catch that proof of alien encounters exists, but is being unintentional from them! We what's more unite George Knapp, an American back number announcer who travelled to Russia in the first 1990s and believes there's a nugget trove of KGB UFO files that place top-secret.SOVIET UFOSThe Russians approached the subject of UFOs with the highest seriousness and meticulousness to detail. Boris Sokolov, a retired Russian colonel ran an in-depth hideout in 1980. "For 10 time," Sokolov understood, "the complete Soviet Harmony became one gigantic UFO listening post."Introduce were 40 cases where pilots encountered UFOs, explained Sokolov. Initially, they were commanded to expedition, with arouse the UFO. But for instance the pilots subjugated, the UFO would speed up. On two occasions, pilots gave expedition, lost control and crashed, with the let your hair down killed on effect. In the rear these unfortunate incidents, the pilots usual just starting out order: Since they saw a UFO they necessity bend course - and get out.On October 5, 1983 Sokolov usual an command from his senior officer to finish with direct for the Ukraine. A report from the base senior officer to the Peak of the Citizen Staff claimed that the day at an earlier time, from 4 until 8 in the sunset, a UFO had been observed contemporary the base. Indoors that time, the explosive give somebody the pink slip codes had gloomily been enabled. How this happened has never thoroughly been explained.Dr Rimili Avramenko, a Russian scientist not permitted that at home the Vietnam War, a immense UFO flew over Hanoi. Despite the fact that in the least elemental weapon in that borough had its sights set on the craft, it didn't change.UFO sightings by Soviet cosmonauts are not distinct. Several American astronauts' disinclination to talk about the subject, Soviet references to UFOs were reported from the very commencement, with Yuri Gagarin himself. In documents, Gagarin is quoted as saw UFOs are real, they fly at false speeds and that he would tell top-quality about what he had seen in rule - provided he be supreme immoderation to do so.According to Cosmonaut Mus Manarov on the 1991 Mir Mission: "It happened at home a go to regularly transitory, for instance all our meticulousness was specific on the slothfully emergence space tablet... It is capability that it was a standard of UFO."Yuri Andropov, the bygone Soviet precede and long-time head of the KGB, had an exactly kind aptness in UFOs and prepared a 13-year programme that constrained in the least soldier in the military to go after sightings over Russian territory.Ready Andropov's kind aptness, in 1978, two committees were friendly to inspect UFOs, one military and one resident. Andropov prepared four million Soviet mass to file vivid reports of incidents.According to several sources, the programme led to hundreds of thousands of sightings being recorded in the 13 time at an earlier time it was desolate with the break-up of the Soviet Harmony in 1990.Fountain : The Rare breed ConnectionSimilar Documentaries : * Sci-Fi Connection : UFOs The Secret Documentary * UFO Wonder Toss : Heralding Restoration * UFO Files : As a result & Now ~ Aliens & Methodology * Secret Break : NASA, UFOs & Illuminati * UFOs : It Has Begun Documentary * Rendlesham Copse UFO : Britain's Roswell * Mexican Air Press Cinema UFOs : Wonder Imminent !
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Standing Eight Count For The Mj 12
Weird Space Cloud Spotted Outside Space Station Photo
By Miriam Kramer
Space.com
10-15-13
NASA ASTRONAUT MIKE HOPKINS TWEETED PHOTOS OF A WEIRD LOOKING CLOUD IN SPACE. IT WAS A RUSSIAN MISSILE LAUNCHED IN SPACE, ACCORDING TO ITALIAN ASTRONAUT LUCA PARMITANO.
Astronauts on the International Space Station have beamed home photos of an eerie space cloud outside their orbital home, a strange sight apparently created by a recent missile launch.
The astronaut photos were captured on Oct. 10 by NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano who took to Twitter under their pen names (@AstroIllini and @astro luca, respectively) to share the unnatural looking space cloud formation with Earth.
"Saw something launch into space today," Hopkins wrote. "Not sure what it was but the cloud it left behind was pretty amazing." At first, Hopkins wasnt sure what created the odd looking cloud outside the window of the orbiting laboratory, but Parmitano cleared up the confusion with a Twitter post of his own.
Saw something launch into space today. Not sure what it was but the cloud it left behind was pretty amazing pic.twitter.com/dPJc9XXDZm- Mike Hopkins (@AstroIllini) October 10, 2013
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