Binary Star System
Summer Solstice Observations 2011
by Andy on Jun.19, 2011, under Binary Star System
Will the 2011 June Solstice Arrive Early?
There is only one way to find out. Go out for sure. Go out and observe it and take measurements.
Here are a few of the useful photos taken so far.
June 18 (left) versus June 19 (right) clock tower shadow length.
I’ll be uploading the original photos here once the observations are complete.
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Magnetic Field From the Sun Across the Solar System
by Andy on Mar.14, 2011, under Binary Star System
The Magnetic Field We Observe On Earth Originates From the Sun
The Sun is the source of the magnetic field we feel on Earth. The field from the North pole of the Sun oscillates through the Solar System forming giant donut rings of ever increasing size but lower strength, the further we are from the Sun. It is this magnetic field that determines the placement of the planets.
It is the motion of the Solar System through the magnetic field of the galaxy that drives the motion of the planets. And in turn it is the motion of the planets through the Sun’s magnetic field that drives the rotation of the planets.
The above diagram shows a simplistic illustration of the Sun’s magnetic field across the Solar System. Of course if we are in a binary star system, there are in fact 2 main magnetic field sources influencing the planets. As the planets are all much closer to the Sun, it is the Sun that provides the dominant magnetic and gravitational field. However the second source (the Black Sun) provides a constant and perhaps predictable disturbance to what would otherwise be a very stable system.
As our Solar System approaches periapsis with the Black Sun, the disturbances to planets is so severe that a crustal displacement or pole shift can occur.
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Full Lunar Eclipse December 21 2010 Earthquakes World Wide Wobble
by Andy on Dec.21, 2010, under Binary Star System, Earthquakes and Alignments, Tipping Point
Did the Full Lunar Eclipse December 21 2010 Cause any Earthquakes?
It would seem not, however there was a “World Wide Wobble” event on December 20th at around 6:40 pm UTC
You may not have felt it but all the seismographs around world recorded a big movement for over an hour.
The only notable earthquake that coincided with this world wide wobble event was the Magnitude 6.5 – SOUTHEASTERN IRAN 2010 December 20 18:41:59 UTC
The last time that all the seismographs went off like this was during the magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Kepuluan Mentawai Indonesia on October 25 2010. However on that occasion the almost hour long wobble left virtually every seismograph almost completely black with ink.
There is still the risk of a large earthquake based upon previous Earth, Moon, Orion (Black Sun) alignments such as the magnitude 8.1 earthquake north of Macquarie Island on December 23rd 2004.
The 7.0 near Christchurch, New Zealand on September 3rd, 2010.
Or the magnitude 7.3, 7.6 and 7.4 series near Mindanao, Philippines on July 23rd 2010.
Earth and Moon Alignment at the time of the Irian Earthqake and World Wide Wobble
The image captured from Celestia shows the position of the Earth relative to the Sun at the time of the magnitude 6.5 earthquake in Southeastern Iran.
- The left hand side of the image looking down on the Solar System with the Earth at the top of the picture.
- The lower right hand side is zoomed in to show the position of the Moon at this moment.
- The top right hand side is the view of the Earth and Moon from the perspective of the Sun. The Earth and Moon are both in an alignment which is consistent with most of the major earthquakes of this century.
It won’t be until after December 26th that the Earth will have moved out of the danger zone.
Today is April Fools Day on the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre Website
If you do a search for all earthquakes on December 21, 2010 on the Interactive maps of earthquakes page at the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre’s Website.
A curious bug in their software displays the date as “2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC”, April Fools Day!
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Death of Pluto
by Andy on Nov.05, 2010, under Binary Star System
Pluto the Little Planet that Couldn’t
Discovered in 1930 and after 76 faithful years as the 9th planet and the outermost known planet in our Solar System.
Pluto was demoted from the Solar System in 2006 and redesignated as “largest known object in the Kuiper belt”.
A petition by planetary scientists and astronomers against the IAU’s new definition of a planet included the following points.
“… for a definition of ‘planet’ that uses dynamics (location) rather than intrinsic properties to decide if an object is or is not a planet. This result is counter to other classification schemes in astronomy (e.g., stars, galaxies, nebulae, even asteroids) in which dynamical context does not play a controlling role. Furthermore, it produces results that are incongruous and cannot be extended within our own solar system or to extra-solar planetary systems without producing immediate results that are patently absurd: e.g., a Neptune-sized object discovered beyond 150 AU could not be a planet, the presence of an Earth orbiting its star between a Jupiter and a Saturn would mean the Earth could not be considered a planet since it could not clear its “neighborhood”. This definition also excludes Pluto from planethood in our solar system, something that is both scientifically questionable and publicly problematic. Both Pluto and a distant Neptune would be classified as a “dwarf planet”, which is not to be considered a subcategory of ‘planet’.”
Why did Pluto have to go?
Enter Eris stage left…
“This, along with the prospect of other similarly sized objects being discovered in the future, motivated the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to define the term planet for the first time. Under a then-new IAU definition approved on August 24, 2006, Eris is a “dwarf planet” along with Pluto, Ceres, Haumea and Makemake.”
Initially named Xena, 136199 Eris, is the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and being larger than Pluto it became the ninth-largest body known to orbit the Sun directly.
The object was discovered on January 5, 2005 by Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz at Palomar observatory in the out reaches of the Kuiper belt.
Eris is just one of now over 1,100 large objects and “dwarf” planets that have been discovered in the outer regions of the Solar system in recent years.
Perhaps the most interesting of these “dwarf” planets is 90377 Sedna.
Sedna the “dwarf” planet that shouldn’t be there
Sedna was discovered in 2003 by Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz.
In the May 2006 issue of Discover, Dr. Brown stated: “Sedna shouldn’t be there. There’s no way to put Sedna where it is. It never comes close enough to be affected by the sun, but it never goes far enough away from the sun to be affected by other stars… Sedna is stuck, frozen in place; there’s no way to move it, basically there’s no way to put it there – unless it formed there. But it’s in a very elliptical orbit like that. It simply can’t be there. There’s no possible way – except it is. So how, then?”
“I’m thinking it was placed there in the earliest history of the solar system. I’m thinking it could have gotten there if there used to be stars a lot closer than they are now and those stars affected Sedna on the outer part of its orbit and then later on moved away. So I call Sedna a fossil record of the earliest solar system. Eventually, when other fossil records are found, Sedna will help tell us how the sun formed and the number of stars that were close to the sun when it formed.”
What caused Sedna’s elongated orbit?
Answering this question was a key goal of Bromley and Kenyon’s study. Their simulations show there is a 5 percent to 10 percent chance Sedna formed within our solar system, probably closer to Neptune or Pluto, and was later launched into its current orbit when our solar system was “buzzed” by another.
“In order for a flyby [between two stars] to put Sedna on its orbit, we need to have Sedna in place at the time of the flyby,” says Bromley.
Bromley says it is possible Sedna is an alien planet, formed in a solar system that later flew near our own. Bromley and Kenyon’s simulations suggest that there is a 1 percent chance that Sedna is a planet captured during a stellar flyby.
“There may be thousands of objects like Sedna near the edge of our solar system,” Bromley says. “So there is an even greater chance that some may be alien worlds captured from another solar system.”
The Kuiper belt ends abruptly at 50 astronomical units from the sun and “there is no evidence that the hard edge of the Kuiper belt is in any sense natural,” says Bromley.
If the edge of our solar system were unperturbed, scientists would predict a gradual tapering of debris at increasing distances from the sun. The computer simulations showed that a close encounter another solar system could explain why rocky, icy Kuiper belt objects vanish abruptly at 50 astronomical units.
