All Flash, No Bang.

edited 7:14pm UTC to add:
well, apparently 20 minutes after I pressed publish, Sol threw another bangless party:

X-Flare # 6 Detected
A strong X2.0 solar flare, now the sixth X-Class event around region 2192, was detected at 14:47 UTC. The event triggered a strong R3 radio black on the sunlit side of Earth. So far the event does not appear to be eruptive, meaning a noteworthy CME is not expected. More details to follow. Click HERE f
or an updated event log.
http://www.solarham.net/

.... and again, no CME.  Hmmmmmm.

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Good morning everyone!

Sorry for the delay in reporting- we have just moved to a new home (with all the adventures that that entails, lol) and I got slammed with cystitis for a few days that left me little time to think about anything other than how long I could go till I had to pee again, lol.  But today has been a turning point on all things physical (and emotional), and the house is almost (ok, sorta) unpacked and I can now return to my computer.


... And I have internet :D


First up today, if you haven't been watching the solar intel, Sol has been having a serious party...... yet it's kinda been like a party with great music, an awesome light show.... but no dancing or laughter.  Sun spot 2192 has been flaring almost continuously for the past 6 days, launching 5 X Class flares in the past 48 hours, plus several M Class flares as well...... and yet, not a single CME from ANY of the flares from 2192.   It's been all flash but no bang.  Very very weird.


I have been following the solar reports hourly almost for the past 5 days.  "They" say that there have been no geomagnetic storms, no radiation storms, no real pick up in the solar wind speeds or velocities (even though we had a good sized coronal hole in geoeffective positioning for most of the past week?).  We've experienced a few very short lived radio black outs during the big flares, yet even those have been insignificant. I smell something off.....

Any way, 2192 is getting close to rotating around the western limb in the next couple of days.  What will be interesting will be to watch the far side as it rotates through away from Earth's direct view.  I strongly suspect that the moment it rotates around far side, it will splash off a spectacular CME.  We'll just have to wait and see, right?

Oh- and want a giggle?  The boys upstairs finally raised the "Solar flare risks" to 55% chance of another X Class flare..... AFTER we had 5 X Class flares in a row, roflmfao!!!

Solar Flare Risk

M-Class: 85%

X-Class: 55%

I"ll post some pretty pictures and videos of the sun in action below.

In other news around Gaia, apparently later on today, purportedly a house size asteroid is going to pass between Earth and the Moon, 160,000km from us.  Normally I wouldn't of batted an eye at a report of this type except that lately we've had a few of these type of "near misses" and they've raised some questions for me.

House-sized Asteroid to Give Earth a Very Close Shave Monday

Get ready for a very close encounter as a house-sized asteroid 2014 UF56 will pass between the Earth and the Moon on Monday. The 15 meter wide space rock will miss our planet at a distance of about 160,000 km (0.4 lunar distances) at 9:12 p.m. UTC. The asteroid was discovered Saturday and despite passing so close to Earth, few if any of us will see the flyby with our eyes in a telescope. At brightest, 2014 UF56 will only reach magnitude +16, as it zips from Scutum constellation through Capricornus.

The asteroid, back in 2012 visited Mars at a distance of about 8 mln km. It will again approach the Earth on Feb. 12, 2018. This will be a very distant fly-by, at about 64 lunar distances.

http://www.science20.com/astro_watch/blog/housesized_asteroid_to_give_earth_a_very_close_shave_monday-147729

Wait a second!!  "They" just discovered this asteroid two days ago, on Saturday, yet they know that the same asteroid visited Mars in 2012, and it will be passing Earth again on Feb 18th, 2018?!?

......Seriously?

Does this sound completely concocted to anyone else?

Solar flares today

Today, 8 solar flares were observed:

		Active region	Begin, UT	Max, UT	End, UT
	Flare of class M7.1	2192	00:06:00	00:34:00	00:44:00
	Flare of class M1.0	2192	01:44:00	02:02:00	02:11:00
	Flare of class M1.3	2192	03:35:00	03:41:00	03:48:00
	Flare of class C3.4	2192	05:01:00	05:04:00	05:11:00
	Flare of class C4.9	2192	05:21:00	05:38:00	05:47:00
	Flare of class C9.6	2192	06:56:00	07:01:00	07:07:00
	Flare of class C9.6	2192	07:11:00	07:15:00	07:20:00
	Flare of class M6.7	0	09:59:00	10:09:00	10:26:00

Solar flares yesterday

Yesterday, 15 solar flares were observed:

		Active region	Begin, UT	Max, UT	End, UT
	Flare of class C3.1	2192	01:08:00	01:13:00	01:27:00
	Flare of class C2.8	2192	05:09:00	05:13:00	05:19:00
	Flare of class C4.0	2192	05:45:00	05:50:00	05:55:00
	Flare of class C9.5	2192	06:13:00	06:21:00	06:26:00
	Flare of class X2.0	2192	10:04:00	10:56:00	11:18:00
	Flare of class C9.2	2192	13:04:00	13:09:00	13:16:00
	Flare of class C5.2	2192	15:11:00	15:20:00	15:34:00
	Flare of class C3.5	0	15:52:00	15:56:00	16:00:00
	Flare of class C5.3	2193	16:12:00	16:17:00	16:22:00
	Flare of class M1.0	2192	17:08:00	17:17:00	17:30:00
	Flare of class C7.8	2192	17:55:00	17:59:00	18:05:00
	Flare of class M4.2	2192	18:07:00	18:15:00	18:20:00
	Flare of class M1.9	2192	18:43:00	18:49:00	18:56:00
	Flare of class M2.4	2192	19:59:00	20:21:00	20:45:00
	Flare of class C8.3	2192	21:47:00	21:59:00	22:13:00
For more information:

http://www.tesis.lebedev.ru/en/sun_flares.html

http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2014/10/26/fifth-x-class-solar-flare-erupts-from-region-2192-x2-0-on-october-26-2014/

http://www.solarham.net/


Very quietly, from the bottom of the page- as you know I am not comfortable with this sorta thing.....  I am in need of some extra funds at the moment.  The moved cost us more than we anticipated, and I also have to put my old trusty laptop into the shop this week in a desperate attempt to access my hard drive- which has hundreds of documents stored on it that I cannot replace- intel reports, etc that I do not have stored anywhere else.  I am currently working on a project that should help to make our family self sufficient monetarily while we still live in this disastrous mess of a failing floundering, fucked up financial system, but at the moment my funds are radically limited till I can get the project up and running.  So I am asking:  If you enjoy the articles I write, and you resonate with what I am saying, and if you have a few cents to send..... I will hugely appreciate it.  I have said it before: if every daily reader of RTS was to "donate" $.50 a month, my family and I would have no problem with anything to do with "finances" any more.

With love and thanx

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Asteroid Mystery: Oh how it itches!!

So there I was, doing my usual evening surf around the internet, researching  for this evenings Transpicuous News article, when all of a sudden I run into this article on RT- note my highlights:



http://rt.com/news/asteroid-flyby-earth-moon-783/

98-foot asteroid flashes between moon and Earth within 24 hours

Published time: March 04, 2014 16:08
Edited time: March 04, 2014 17:34

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An Apollo class asteroid is expected to whizz between the Earth and the moon on March 5. The 98-foot-wide space rock is expected to come within 218,000 miles of earth (0.9 lunar distances), creating quite the site for stargazers.

The asteroid, named 2014 DX110, is expected to make its closest approach at 21:07 GMT on Wednesday at a blistering speed of 14.85 km/s (32,076 mph). Although the space rock poses no threat to earth, it highlights the earth’s susceptibility to near-Earth asteroids.

For amateur astronomers interested in watching the flyby as it happens, the virtual telescope project will offer live coverage via Slooh, which allows viewers to peer through a telescope via the web.

DX110 belongs to the Apollo class of asteroids, a group of Earth-crossing asteroids, which pose a potential threat to humankind. The February-15, 2013, 65-foot-wide meteor, which exploded over the town of Chelyabinsk in the southern Urals region of Russia, belonged to the Apollo class. The meteor explosion was 30 times stronger than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. As windowpanes shattered throughout the city, 1,500 people were injured, but luckily no one was killed.

Nearly one year after the Chelyabinsk atmospheric extravaganza, another massive asteroid sailed past the Earth. The space-rock known officially as 2000 EM26 had an estimated diameter of 885 feet, roughly the equivalent of 3 football fields. It however, only came within some 2,094,400 miles of Earth.

Based on the orbits of such space rocks, many of them are likely originate in "the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. While DX110 will come nearly ten times closer to Earth than the exponentially larger EM26, another asteroid – 2012 DA14 – came within 17,200 miles of the Earth’s surface. In an amazing cosmic coincidence, DA14 made its near-earth flyby on the exact same day the Chelyabinsk impacter hit. Scientists say if the 150ft-wide had hit Earth, it would have had enough destructive power to level a major metropolis the size of Moscow or London.

And last week, a 400 kg meteor slammed into the moon at a speed of 36,600 mph, leaving behind a 40-meter-wide crater.

Does that ring any bells for you?  Let's jump back a few weeks ago on RTS:

Giant Meteor hit the Moon..... 6 months ago?

Sooooooooo....... apparently the "biggest meteor EVER" hit the moon....... last September.

September 11th, 2013 to be precise.  So they say.

Below is the "News" story on BBC about the meteor strike that happened 6 MONTHS ago.  Please note the large amount of  babble of nothing being said.  But also note that within the babble there are two pointed pieces of information:

"They say the collision would have generated a flash of light so bright that it would have been visible from Earth."

and

""Usually lunar impacts have a very short duration - just a fraction of a second. But the impact we detected lasted over eight seconds. It was almost as bright as the Pole Star, which makes it the brightest impact event that we have recorded from Earth," said Prof Madiedo. "

Yet even though it "would have" been seen by the naked eye on Earth, not a single report ANYWHERE from people seeing a light as bright as the Pole Star on the Moon.

Could it be that people were distracted by the fireballs in the sky?

I find it very interesting that 6 MONTHS after a very peculiar incident- one that makes absolutely no sense at all in terms of a simple meteor strike- regardless of it size- on the moon, all of a sudden NOW.... they are releasing this information.

really?   Really?   REALLY?!?


I'm keeping my eye peeled on this one as my inner itchy bump is definitely itchy!!

http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2014/02/giant-meteor-hit-moon-6-months-ago.html



From the BBC article I quoted back in February:

The explosive strike was spotted by the Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System (Midas) of telescopes in southern Spain on 11 September at 20:07 GMT.

"Usually lunar impacts have a very short duration - just a fraction of a second. But the impact we detected lasted over eight seconds. It was almost as bright as the Pole Star, which makes it the brightest impact event that we have recorded from Earth," said Prof Madiedo.
The researchers say a lump of rock weighing about 400kg (900lb) and travelling at 61,000km/h (38,000mph) slammed into the surface of the Moon.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26325934


My itchy bump is still itching it would seem.  So, is the person who wrote the RT article just clueless about when a giant rock slammed into the moon, or is there a lot more to this story?  

The original report that I put out on Feb 25th already sent my inner brain bump itching with the fact that it took over 5 months for someone to report an event on the moon that should of been viewable with the naked eye (yet there were no reports of any kind anywhere that I could find)- an event that distinguished it's self  from a normal impact by the flash lasting 7 seconds longer than  it should have for a simple asteroid impact.  And now we have a passing comment in the news that there was a lunar asteroid impact "a week ago" that gives the exact same dimensions etc... as the impact that supposedly happened in September.

There is more to this story than meets the eye- that's what my itch is telling me.