Now wally you should know Kali Yuga has nothing to do with that the the
Mayan fantasy
But as the next date imagined what can we say? they still are trying to
guess CXQ72 and it's import and the subject of same, has just written a
book and is visiting UK, maybe I should try and get an autograph whilst
I am here!!
Stone age indeed but he did meet with Fred Flinstone's bedrock brain.

LB

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There are now only 2273 days, 8 hours, 45 minutes, and 44 seconds left
until the end of the Kali Yuga on Friday, December 21, 2012 AD.......

HOOROO

UNCLE WALLY

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NASA Claims Polar Shift Due In 2012
Solar System - Did you notice? In February 2001, the Sun did a magnetic
polar shift. The next one is due again in 2012. NASA scientists who
monitor the Sun say that our star's awesome magnetic field flipped 22
months ago, signaling the arrival of a solar maximum. But it wasn't so
obvious to the average human.

The Sun's magnetic north pole, which was in the northern hemisphere
just a few months ago, now points south. It's a topsy-turvy situation,
but not an unexpected one. "This always happens around the time of
solar maximum," says David Hathaway, a solar physicist at the Marshall
Space Flight Center. "The magnetic poles exchange places at the peak of
the sunspot cycle. In fact, it's a good indication that Solar Max is
really here."

The Sun's magnetic poles will remain as they are now, with the north
magnetic pole pointing through the Sun's southern hemisphere, until the
year 2012 when they will reverse again. This transition happens, as far
as we know, at the peak of every 11-year sunspot cycle -- like
clockwork.

Earth=E2=80=99s magnetic field also flips, but with less regularity.
Consecutive reversals are spaced 5 thousand years to 50 million years
apart. The last reversal happened 740,000 years ago. Some researchers
think our planet is overdue for another one, but nobody knows exactly
when the next reversal might occur.

Although solar and terrestrial magnetic fields behave differently, they
do have something in common: their shape. During solar minimum the
Sun's field, like Earth's, resembles that of an iron bar magnet, with
great closed loops near the equator and open field lines near the
poles. Scientists call such a field a "dipole." The Sun's dipolar field
is about as strong as a refrigerator magnet, or 50 gauss (a unit of
magnetic intensity). Earth's magnetic field is 100 times weaker.

When solar maximum arrives and sunspots pepper the face of the Sun, our
star's magnetic field begins to change. Sunspots are places where
intense magnetic loops -- hundreds of times stronger than the ambient
dipole field -- poke through the photosphere.

"Meridional flows on the Sun's surface carry magnetic fields from
mid-latitude sunspots to the Sun's poles," explains Hathaway. "The
poles end up flipping because these flows transport south-pointing
magnetic flux to the north magnetic pole, and north-pointing flux to
the south magnetic pole." The dipole field steadily weakens as
oppositely-directed flux accumulates at the Sun's poles until, at the
height of solar maximum, the magnetic poles change polarity and begin
to grow in a new direction.

Hathaway noticed the latest polar reversal in a "magnetic butterfly
diagram." Using data collected by astronomers at the U.S. National
Solar Observatory on Kitt Peak, he plotted the Sun's average magnetic
field, day by day, as a function of solar latitude and time from 1975
through the present. The result is a sort of strip chart recording that
reveals evolving magnetic patterns on the Sun's surface. "We call it a
butterfly diagram," he says, "because sunspots make a pattern in this
plot that looks like the wings of a butterfly." In the butterfly
diagram, pictured below, the Sun's polar fields appear as strips of
uniform color near 90 degrees latitude. When the colors change (in this
case from blue to yellow or vice versa) it means the polar fields have
switched signs.

The ongoing changes are not confined to the space immediately around
our star, Hathaway added. The Sun's magnetic field envelops the entire
solar system in a bubble that scientists call the "heliosphere." The
heliosphere extends 50 to 100 astronomical units (AU) beyond the orbit
of Pluto. Inside it is the solar system -- outside is interstellar
space.

"Changes in the Sun's magnetic field are carried outward through the
heliosphere by the solar wind," explains Steve Suess, another solar
physicist at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "It takes about a year
for disturbances to propagate all the way from the Sun to the outer
bounds of the heliosphere." Because the Sun rotates (once every 27
days) solar magnetic fields corkscrew outwards in the shape of an
Archimedian spiral. Far above the poles the magnetic fields twist
around like a child's Slinky toy.

Because of all the twists and turns, "the impact of the field reversal
on the heliosphere is complicated," says Hathaway. Sunspots are sources
of intense magnetic knots that spiral outwards even as the dipole field
vanishes. The heliosphere doesn't simply wink out of existence when the
poles flip -- there are plenty of complex magnetic structures to fill
the void.

Or so the theory goes.... Researchers have never seen the magnetic flip
happen from the best possible point of view -- that is, from the top
down. But now, the unique Ulysses spacecraft may give scientists a
reality check. Ulysses, an international joint venture of the European
Space Agency and NASA, was launched in 1990 to observe the solar system
from very high solar latitudes. Every six years the spacecraft flies
2.2 AU over the Sun's poles. No other probe travels so far above the
orbital plane of the planets. "Ulysses just passed under the Sun's
south pole," says Suess, a mission co-Investigator. "Now it will loop
back and fly over the north pole in the fall."

"This is the most important part of our mission," he says. Ulysses last
flew over the Sun's poles in 1994 and 1996, during solar minimum, and
the craft made several important discoveries about cosmic rays, the
solar wind, and more. "Now we get to see the Sun's poles during the
other extreme: Solar Max. Our data will cover a complete solar cycle."

To learn more about the Sun's changing magnetic field and how it is
generated, please visit "The Solar Dynamo," a web page prepared by the
NASA/Marshall solar research group. Updates from the Ulysses spacecraft
may be found on the Internet from JPL at http://ulysses.jpl.nasa.gov.

(Source: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast15feb_1.htm)

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