Giant Electrical Tornadoes In Space Drive The Auroras

The scientific work is an open and permanent quest. We do not know everything. The following article exemplifies what we have said many times: that there are still many natural phenomena that need to be explained. This one now has been explained. But how many others are still pending of their discovery?
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by Robert Sanders,
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Apr 27, 2009

Earth-bound tornadoes are puny compared to "space tornadoes," which span a volume as large as Earth and produce electrical currents exceeding 100,000 amperes, according to new observations by a suite of five NASA space probes.

The probe cluster, called Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS), recorded the extent and power of these electrical funnels as the probes passed through them during their orbit of Earth. Ground measurements showed that the space tornadoes channel the electrical current into the ionosphere to spark bright and colorful auroras on Earth.

The findings were presented during a press at the general assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in Vienna, Austria.

Space tornadoes are rotating plasmas of hot, ionized gas flowing at speeds of more than a million miles per hour, far faster than the 200 m.p.h. winds of terrestrial tornadoes, according to Andreas Keiling, a research space physicist at the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory.

Keiling works on THEMIS, which was built and is now operated by UC Berkeley. The five space probes were launched by NASA in February 2007 to solve a decades-long mystery about the origin of magnetic storms that power the Northern and Southern Lights

Both terrestrial and space tornadoes consist of funnel-shaped structures. Space tornadoes, however, generate huge amounts of electrical currents inside the funnel. These currents flow along twisted magnetic field lines from space into the ionosphere where they power several processes, most notably bright auroras such as the Northern Lights Keiling said.

While these intense currents do not cause any direct harm to humans, on the ground they can damage man-made structures, such as power transformers.

The THEMIS spacecraft observed these tornadoes, or "flow vortices," at a distance of about 40,000 miles from Earth. Simultaneous measurements by THEMIS ground observatories confirmed the tornadoes' connection to the ionosphere.

Keiling's colleagues include Karl-Heinz Glassmeier of the Institute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics (IGEP, TU) in Braunschweig, Germany, and Olaf Amm of the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

(Taken from Space Daily Express of April 28, 2009)

Gigantescos Tornados Eléctricos en el Espacio Desatan las Auroras

La tarea científica es una búsqueda abierta y permanente.No sabemos todo. El siguiente artículo ejemplifica lo que hemos dicho muchas veces: que hay aún muchos fenómenos naturales que necesitan ser explicados.Éste ha sido explicado. ¿Pero cuántos otros están pendientes de ser descubiertos?

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por Robert Sanders,
Viena, Ausria (SPX) Abril 27, 2009

Los tornados terrestres son una nimiedad comparados con los “tornados espaciales”, que alcanzan un volúmen tan grande como la Tierra y producen corrientes eléctricas que exceden los 100.000 amperes, según nuevas observaciones efectuadas por un equipo de sondas espaciales de la NASA.

El racimo de sondas, llamado THEMIS por Historia Cronometrada de los Sucesos e Interacciones en Macroescala durante Subtormentas, registró la extensión y energía de esos embudos eléctricos mientras las sondas pasaban a través de ellos durante su órbita alrededor de la Tierra. Medidas obtenidas en tierra mostraron que los tornados espaciales canalizan la corriente eléctrica hacia la ionósfera para desatar brillantes y coloridas auroras en la Tierra.

Los descubrimientos se presentaron en una conferencia de prensa durante la asamblea general de la Unión Europea de Geociencias, en Viena, Austria.

Los tornados espaciales son plasmas rotatorios de gas caliente e ionizado que se desplaza velocidades de más de un millón de millas por hora (un millón 609 mil kilómetros por hora), mucho más veloz que los vientos de 321 kilómetros por hora de los tornados terrestres, según Andreas Keiling, un físico e investigador del espacio, perteneciente al Laboratorio de Ciencias Espaciales de la Universidad de California, en Berkeley.

Keilling trabaja en THEMIS, que fue construído y ahora operado por la Universidad de California en Berkeley. Las cinco sondas espaciales fueron lanzadas por la NASA en Febrero de 2007 para resolver un misterio que se extendió por décadas acerca del origen magnético de las tormentas que proveen energía a las Auroras Boreales y Australes.

Tanto los tornados terrestres como los espaciales consisten en estructuras con la forma de un embudo. Los tornados espaciales, no obstante, generan enormes cantidads de corrientes eléctricas dentro del embudo. Esas corrientes fluyen a lo largo de líneas magnéticas retorcidas desde el espacio hacia la ionósfera donde proveeen energía a varios procesos, el más notable el de las auroras tales como las Boreales, dijo Keiling.

En tanto esas intensas corrientes no causan ningún daño directo a los seres humanos, en tierra pueden dañar estructuras creadas por el ser humano, tales como transformadores de electricidad.

El aparato espacial THEMIS observó estos tornados o “vórtices de flujo”, a una distancia de unas 40.000 millas (64 mil kilómetros) de la Tierra. Mediciones simultáneas hechas por observatorios terrestres de THEMIS confirmaron la conexión de los tornados con la ionósfera.

Los colegas de Keiling, incluyeron a Karl-Heinz Glassmeier del Instituto para Geofísica y Física Extraterrestre (IGEP) en Braunschweig, Alemania, y Olaf Amm, del Instituto Meteorológico Finlandés.

(Tomado del Space Daily Express del 28 de Abril de 2009)

ANALYZING THE PICTURE: Any?

A group of people interested in UFOs, in Maldonado, Uruguay, wanted to demonstrate how it is possible to perpetrate hoaxes with supposedly “ufo pictures”.

With that in mind, they hanged a top from a thin thread and took a digital picture.
When they looked at the picture in the computer they realized that there was something else that they didn’t see at the moment of taking the picture.
They would like to know what it could be.

I told them that my personal impression is that it is something either small or very high in the sky, most probably an airplane.

I made some work with the picture and I have it embossed, inverted, threshold, bas-relieved, etc.

But what is needed is an analysis of all of that.

Is any UAPSG member in conditions to make a good analysis?

Here is the picture and an enhancement of the interesting part of it.

FOTO A ANALIZAR: ¿Alguien se ofrece?

Un grupo de interesados en el tema OVNI de Maldonado, Uruguay, quiso demostrar cómo es posible llevar a cabo trucos con supuestas “fotografías de ovnis”.

Con eso en mente, colgaron una tapa de un hilo fino y tomaron una fotografía digital. Cuando la vieron en la computadora se dieron cuenta que había algo más que no vieron en el momento de tomar la fotografía.

Ellos quisieran saber qué puede ser.

Les dije que mi impresión personal es que es algo o bien pequeño o muy alto en el cielo, más probablemente un avión. Yo trabajé algo la fotografía y le hice relieve, inversión, umbral, bajo relieve, etc. Pero lo que se necesita es un análisis de todo eso.

¿Hay algún miembro del GEFAI en condiciones de hacer un buen análisis?

Aquí presento la foto y un análisis de la parte interesante de la misma.

ARGENTINEAN INITIATIVE TO OPEN OFFICIAL UFO FILES

Carlos Iurchuk a member of UAPSG reports from Argentina the following news:

“Starting some months ago a group of Argentinean ufologists and people interested in the subject has been organizing to ask the government to declassify the UFO files that could be on military as well as civil institutions. Pursuing that goal it has been created CEFORA (Commission for the Study of the UFO Phenomenon in the Argentinean Republic) and they are collecting signatures. They need at least 100.000 signatures to give relevance to their petition. Besides CEFORA will be a partner with an NGO to have a better framework for its request. They have gathered together with this purpose and the last meeting was held on April 4, 2009 in the city of Victoria where Silvia Simondini was the hostess.”

Those interested to know more about this initiative please contact:

Carlos Alberto Iurchuk - dragoninvisible@gmail.com

INICIATIVA ARGENTINA PARA QUE SE ABRAN LOS ARCHIVOS OVNI OFICIALES

Carlos Iurchuk, miembro del GEFAI nos comunica desde la Argentina, la siguiente novedad:

“Desde hace unos meses un grupo de ufólogos y gente interesada en el tema de Argentina nos estamos organizando para solicitar al gobierno argentino la desclasificación de los archivos OVNI que se encuentran en los diferentes organismos oficiales, sean civiles o militares. Para tal fin se creó el CEFORA (Comisión de Estudio del Fenómeno OVNI de la República Argentina) y se empezó a juntar firmas. Hay que conseguir 100.000 firmas como mínimo para que la solicitud tenga algún peso. Además el CEFORA formará parte de una ONG para darle un marco más adecuado a la solicitud. Se han hecho reuniones para ir delineando todo esto. La última se realizó el pasado 4 de abril en la ciudad de Victoria, donde nuestra amiga Silvia Simondini hizo de anfitriona”.

Los interesados en tener más información pueden ponerse en contacto con:

Carlos Alberto Iurchuk - dragoninvisible@gmail.com

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

New Discovery Poses Challenge To Galaxy Formation Theories

Bloomington IN (SPX) Apr 17, 2009

A team led by an Indiana University astronomer has found a sample of massive galaxies with properties that suggest they may have formed relatively recently.

This would run counter to the widely-held belief that massive, luminous galaxies (like our own Milky Way Galaxy) began their formation and evolution shortly after the Big Bang, some 13 billion years ago.

Further research into the nature of these objects could open new windows into the study of the origin and early evolution of galaxies.

John Salzer, principal investigator for the study published today in Astrophysical Journal Letters, said that the 15 galaxies in the sample exhibit luminosities (a measure of their total light output) that indicate that they are massive systems like the Milky Way and other so-called "giant" galaxies.

However, these particular galaxies are unusual because they have chemical abundances that suggest very little stellar evolution has taken place within them. Their relatively low abundances of "heavy" elements (elements heavier than helium, called "metals" by astronomers) imply the galaxies are cosmologically young and may have formed recently.

The chemical abundances of the galaxies, combined with some simple assumptions about how stellar evolution and chemical enrichment progress in galaxies in general, suggest that they may only be 3 or 4 billion years old, and therefore formed 9 to 10 billion years after the Big Bang. Most theories of galaxy formation predict that massive, luminous systems like these should have formed much earlier.

If this overall interpretation proves correct, the galaxies may allow astronomers to investigate phases of the galaxy formation and evolution process that have been difficult to study because they normally occur at such early times in the Universe, and therefore at very large distances from us.

"These objects may represent a unique window on the process of galaxy formation, allowing us to study relatively nearby systems that are undergoing a phase in their evolution that is analogous to the types of events that, for most galaxies, typically occurred much earlier in the history of the Universe," Salzer said.

Taken from “Space Daily” (April 17, 2009)