HARPS Discovers 32 New Exoplanets

Astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system with the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as
HARPS, the spectrograph for the European Southern Observatory's (ESO)
3.6-metre telescope.
The number of known exoplanets is now at 414, and HARPS itself has
discovered more than 75 exoplanets in 30 different planetary systems.
Included in this most recent batch are several low-mass planets – so-called "Super Earths" about the size of Neptune. The image above is an artist's impression of a planet discovered that is 6 times the mass of Earth, which circles the low-mass host star, Gliese 667 C, at a distance equal to only 1/20th of the Earth-Sun distance. Two other planets were discovered previously around this star.
"HARPS is a unique, extremely high precision instrument that is
ideal for discovering alien worlds," said ESO astronomer Stéphane Udry.
“We have now completed our initial five-year program, which has
succeeded well beyond our expectations.”
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HOW SOLAR FLARES CAN AFFECT YOUR BODY!
with the advent
of some of the most recent solar flares and their X-Class intensity,
some of the strongest flares to date have been buffeting the Earth with dramatic changes causing major upheavals worldwide ...

Majestic
Research's interactive site provides you up-to-the-minute CME reports. 
Following the CME status, are monitor explanations of each flare and
geomagnetic field.  We have now included an additional gift from NOAA,
the Sun Spot Cycle Graph (below) tracking the CME's performance over
the past few years ... you will be quite surprised!  We hope this
information helps you.  For questions or suggestions please email us at
tween@tween.org.

The Good News
Yes,
there is some good news to all the above ... below are a couple
articles to help you see that the Sun also has a positive impact on us.
Solar Activity Essential for Super-Human Achievement
by Nick Anthony

"Stellar (solar) activity as this, although dramatic, catalyzes, and is essential for super-human achievement by
stimulating radical change and transformation in the organizational
foundation of matter, energy and consciousness. The
Solar activity occurring now is an intimate part of the dynamic
catalyzing the Holy Cross evolutionary spiritual shift.  Solar flare
activity and Super Nova (star) explosions are the primary catalysts
that stimulate renaissance in consciousness. They
provide the cosmic radiation that supports the evolutionary unfoldment
and maturation of the incarnate soul--the illumination of consciousness
that we all seek. "To
learn more about the effects of solar and electromagnetic activity on
the human mind and body see the work of E.E. Richards at "Earth Resonance"

https://home.gwi.net/-erichard/- Nick Anthony

 his website lunarplanner.com
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ROCKET FUEL DUMP: A Centaur rocket caused a minor sensation
on Sunday night, Oct. 18th, when it flew over Europe and dumped
a load of excess propellant. "We saw it at 9:15 pm local
time (1915 UT)," report Federico and Chiara Bellini of
Bodio Lomnago, Italy. "It looked like a comet with a
fan-shaped tail." They took this 30-second exposure using
a Nikon
D70s:

"About 20 seconds later, a
second object appeared." That was a US military weather
satellite (DMSP F-18), which the Centaur booster had helped
launch earlier in the evening from Vandebergh, Air Force
Base in California. "And then," the Bellinis continue,
"a big circular halo followed the two across the sky."
The halo, shown here in a movie recorded by Jonas Förste of Jakobstad, Finland,
was probably an expanding puff of gas emitted during an earlier
firing of the Centaur.
more images: from
Marko Posavec of Koprivnica, Croatia; from
Davide Trezzi of Varenna, Italy; from
Vince Tuboly of Hegyhátsál, Hungary
LUNAR IMPACT PLUME: There was a plume after all. Observers
on Earth had their doubts after LCROSS and its Centaur booster
rocket hit the Moon on Friday, Oct. 9th. The twin lunar impacts
failed to produce visible plumes of debris, prompting speculation
that something had gone wrong. On the contrary, members of
the LCROSS science team are now calling the experiment "a
smashing success."
Fifteen seconds after the Centaur hit the shadowy floor of
crater Cabeus, the LCROSS spacecraft flying 600 km overhead
took the following picture of a plume measuring 6 to 8 km
wide:

"There is a clear indication of a plume
of vapor and fine debris," says LCROSS principal investigator
Tony Colaprete of NASA/Ames. "The ejecta brightness appears
to be at the low end of our predictions and this may be a
clue to the properties of the material the Centaur hit."

Nine cameras and spectrometers on LCROSS captured
every phase of the Centaur's impact: the
intial flash, the debris plume, and the creation of the
Centaur's crater. "We are blown away by the data
returned," says Colaprete. "The team is working
hard on the analysis and the data appear to be of very high
quality."

But did the impact reveal any water at the bottom
of Cabeus? The LCROSS team isn't ready to say yet. Combining
their data with those of other observatories and analyzing
the full dataset could take weeks. According to NASA, "any
new information will undergo the normal scientific review
process and will be released as soon as it is available."

For more information, read NASA's Oct. 16th
press
release and browse the gallery
of images.