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cartwheel coronal mass ejection
Animated version here: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/27may_cartwheelcme/
And also here in black/white: http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2008/05/27/27may_cartwheelcme_resources/cartwheel_xrt_diff_small_crop.mov
“On April 9, 2008, a coronal mass ejection or “CME” pirouetted over the sun’s limb in full view of an international fleet of spacecraft. Even veteran solar physicists were amazed.
But that’s not all. While one part of the cloud did a cartwheel, another part did a backflip at the same time. As strange as it sounds, this could be the normal way solar explosions unfold, say researchers analyzing the data.
“What a rare and exciting observation,” says Ed DeLuca of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) who announced the findings at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 27th. “It is showing us the secret inner workings of a process called ‘magnetic reconnection’ central to solar flares and CMEs.
These videos reveal a billion tons of hot, magnetized gas twirling at speeds in excess of 1000 km/s. The cartwheel (left; recorded by the X-Ray Telescope onboard Japan’s Hinode spacecraft) spins one way while the backflip (right; recorded by UV cameras onboard NASA’s TRACE spacecraft) spins the other. How can an explosion spin in two directions at once?
DeLuca explains: “We think we are seeing a twisted ‘flux tube’ of solar magnetism unfurl. One end of the tube spins clockwise, the other counterclockwise.” This unfurling action pumps energy into the explosion, heating the CME and propelling it away from the sun.”
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/27may_cartwheelcme/
Posted in diversions
cartwheel: 5
scope
I have no specific aim in life.
I am studious, patient, rigorous, austere. I carry out all the plans I make.
I have difficulty adapting to the modern world, to new technology.
I am always at the forefront of progress. Like everything new.
I am frank, honest, full of vigor and ambition. I am amiable, and sociable.
I have problems being open. I accept solitude.
I am intuitive, sensitive. Not a fighter and indecisive. Gentle and yielding.
I am quarrelsome, critical and violent. My success is obtained by dubious means.
I am agreeable company and always in demand.
I am not particularly popular in my circle, but am feared and respected.
All medical, paramedic or social work are recommended. Work in the police field. I can work as a funeral director.
I can fight for a particular ideal but might abandon it along the way, being less convinced than at the beginning of its virtue or because I realize that it is a losing battle. Conflict abroad. Weak point: the throat. I control my feelings.
Not frightened by the unknown, death. I have a tendency to bad dreams.
I have a great sense of observation and quickly grasp the situation. I am a stay-at-home.
I like long voyages, things foreign, water.
I persevere.
Posted in cartwheels
no, not that ferris, the other ferris
George Washington Ferris built the first Ferris wheel for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The organizers wanted a monument to surpass the Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Paris International Exposition. The first Ferris wheel carried 1-1/2 million visitors, each paying 50 cents for a 20-minute ride.
George Washington Ferris spent the next two years in litigation with the fair’s organizers for his portion of the profits. He died in 1896 when he was only 37 years old. On May 11, 1906, the wheel was dynamited and scrapped.
He is sometimes confused with another George Ferris: http://nsla.nevadaculture.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=675&Itemid=95
Posted in elegies
1000 years (give or take)
Norias of Hama on the Orontes River, Syria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norias_of_Hama
Posted in diversions
cartwheel: 4
a cloned involution
unlaced violin onto
calved lotion union
unlaced volition on
unclad voile notion
nonactive loud lion
invocation dull one
lilac devotion noun
colonial devout inn
continual dove lion
lunatic loved onion
contain unloved oil
a lucid violent noon
a novice dull notion
an uncool violent id
Posted in cartwheels
CHRISTINE MCNAIR 