Massive quake March 21, 2012, exactly 6 months after Elenin? Not Joking. (Doom)

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Japan Eathquake May Have Struck Atmosphere First
uk.ibtimes.com By Ewan Palmer | October 11, 2011 12:34 PM GMT

The devastating earthquake that struck Japan earlier this year may have rattled the highest layer of the atmosphere before it shook the Earth, a discovery which could be used to provide warning for big earthquakes.

The magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck the coast of Tohuku in March and ushered in what might be the world's first complex "megadisaster", as the quake triggered off a tsunami and a series of small quakes and tremors around the globe.

Scientists recently found that the surface motions and tsunamis the earthquake triggered also generated waves in the sky that reached all the way to the ionosphere, one of the highest layers of the Earth's atmosphere.

Now geodesist and geophysicist Kosuke Heki at Hokkaido University in Japan has reported that these ripples in the ionosphere could have in fact occurred before the quake struck.

Heki gathered data from thousands of GPS receivers - which communicate with satellites using signals than are easily disrupted by a slight surge in electrons.

He discovered a rise of around 8 per cent in the total electron content in the ionosphere about the area hit by the quake around 40 minutes before the temblor. The increase was at its highest around the epicentre and diminished further away.

"Before finding this phenomenon, I did not think earthquakes could be predicted at all," said Heki.

"Now I think large earthquakes are predictable."

After analysing date from other huge earthquakes, including the Sumatra magnitude 9.2 earthquake in 2004 and the 8.8 Chile earthquake in 2010, Heki found that a similar pattern occurred.

Right now the anomaly is only seen with earthquakes with a magnitude of 8.5 or higher. Heki also warned that solar storms can trigger changes in electron content, so before researchers can develop an early-warning system for earthquakes based on ionospheric anomalies, they would have to rule out non-earthquake causes.

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Jupiter hard to miss in the October night sky

BY ANDREW FAZEKAS, FREELANCE OCTOBER 5, 2011

The clear and crisp nights of October are a great time to catch autumn stargazing showpieces. And headlining is the king of all planets, Jupiter.

For the past month it's been hard to miss Jupiter in the late night sky since it outshines all other stars. Over the course of October, things will get more interesting, as it continues to crank up its brightness as it reaches opposition on Oct. 29 - making for a spectacular sight both with the naked eye and telescopes.

Opposition is an extra special time for stargazers because that's when Jupiter shines throughout the course of the night from dusk till dawn and represents the time when Earth comes closest to the gas giant. And Jupiter, in turn, shines most brightly in our sky. If we could look down from above the plane of the solar system, we would see the sun, Earth and Jupiter in near perfect alignment during this time.

Making it extra special this year is that gas giant is the nearest to Earth until the year 2022.

A whole lot of tweeking going on:

Series of thumps may have thrown Uranus off-kilter
Oct. 7, 2011 world-science.net

Astronomers say they may have figured out why the planet Uranus seems to be lying on its side with respect to the Sun. A series of bumps from other solar system objects early in its life could explain the odd alignment, they propose.

Most planets spin along roughly the same plane they inhabit with respect to the Sun. That is, if we could picture the Sun as a big spinning top on a table, most planets would be small tops around it on the same surface, spinning normally. But Uranus would have to be envisioned as a member of this group that is for some reason spinning on its side. To be more precise, its spin axis is tilted by 98 degrees compared to its orbit around the Sun. Jupiter’s axis, by contrast, is tilted by only 3 degrees; Earth’s by 23; Saturn’s and Neptune’s, 29.

The conventional explanation is that Uranus was at some point knocked on its side by an impact from an object a few times heavier than Earth, which weighs a fifteenth as much as Uranus...

There remained one problem: in the simulations, the moons ended up orbiting Uranus backward compared to how they are really moving. A tweak fixed this, Morbidelli’s group found...

The finding is at odds with current theories of how planets form, which may now need adjusting, Morbidelli said. “The standard planet formation theory assumes that Uranus, Neptune and the cores of Jupiter and Sat*urn formed by accreting only small objects in the protoplanetary disk,” he explained. “They should have suffered no giant collisions.” Morbidelli presented the research Oct. 6 at the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences and the European Planetary Science Congress in Nantes, France.

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Series of thumps may have thrown Uranus off-kilter

The noosphere truly works wonders doen't it, keehah?

Its as if a brown dwarf previously tread thru there.

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Jupiter ...continues to crank up its brightness as it reaches opposition on Oct. 29 - making for a spectacular sight both with the naked eye and telescopes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_in_astrology

Leader of the Gods; Jupiter means "Sky Father."
Mentor/Guru /teacher of gods.
Always helped gods in war against demons. Guru means "teacher" or "priest." Brihaspati means "lord of prayer or devotion."...

Jupiter

In Roman mythology, Jupiter is the ruler of the gods and their guardian and protector, and his symbol is the thunderbolt. In the same way, the planet Jupiter is the king of the other planets, a giant in size with spectacular, brightly colored clouds and intense storms.[citation needed] Astronomers believe that it plays an important protecting role in using its massive gravity to capture or expel from the solar system many comets and asteroids that would otherwise threaten Earth and the inner planets.

Jupiter Effect Right Now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/ny...tic-coast.html

A king tide will be running Wednesday and Thursday because gravitational forces of the sun, the moon and the earth will be lined up in a cue shot of fleeting geometry and rare power. It will raise the water level between one and two feet above normal high tides for many areas on the Atlantic coast.

Alignment.. will cause unusually high tides

[October 25, 2011]
South Jersey bays and tidal creeks will see unusually high tides today and Thursday. An unusual alignment of the sun and moon and their proximity to the Earth will cause these highest water levels of the year...

But this so-called “king tide”...

Thursday’s tide will be the highest of 2011, but will not be at a historic level, said Stew Farrell, director of the Coastal Research Center at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in Galloway Township.

“This just happens to be the biggest one of the year and probably a couple of years, but the difference we’re talking is tenths of a foot,” he said.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_tide

The king tides occur when the Earth, moon and sun are aligned at perigee and perihelion. On Australia's East Coast, the highest tides occur during the winter months of June, July and August, and the summer months of December, January and February. The highest of each of these periods (i.e., one in winter and one in summer, totaling two per year) are known as the king tides.
The winter king tide usually occurs at night and therefore goes unnoticed. Consequently the summer king tide usually catches the most attention. On such days the surf is particularly dangerous — tall waves, long clean breaks, strong rips, consistent sets: ideal for surfing, but seductive and dangerous for inexperienced swimmers.
King tides are particularly formidable on the island country of Tuvalu, where they can devastate the low lying atoll's people and wildlife. Sea level rise may exacerbate these effects.
As with all spring tides, king tides occur with the coming of new and full moons. Some traditional mythologies hold that such times cause madness, a possible origin of the word "lunacy".

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Published on Tuesday 4 October 2011 06:51

LIFEBOAT crews were scrambled after a caller thought they saw distress flares over the North Sea – which turned out to be the planet Jupiter.

Humber Coastguard launched a lifeboat at about 7.45pm yesterday after a report of flares six miles off the coast.
A rescue helicopter from RAF Boulmer was called out, but a search proved fruitless. The caller had mistaken Jupiter, which is low in the sky at this time of year, for flares.

Adrian Don, of Tynemouth RNLI, said: “Although this was a false alarm, it was made with the best intentions, and we urge anyone who thinks they’ve seen someone in distress to do the same.”


http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/l...arch_1_3837265

[vacuum]

[Awoke]

Uhh, did Elinen fly by already?
And I missed it?
And we're not all dead?

[Son-of-Liberty]

Uhh, did Elinen fly by already?
And I missed it?
And we're not all dead?

Yup.

[Dogman]

Uhh, did Elinen fly by already?
And I missed it?
And we're not all dead?

Yup.

Yep we are all dead or just missed it?

[Awoke]

Hmm. Interesting.