The best SpaceWeather site I've seen yet


	The best SpaceWeather site I've seen yet
skwirlinator
3-17-2008 7:21 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f7ef650b-7e82-4e2c-85cb-1f16e14af8ac/E28B4C5B-7FA6-4922-AC11-6BB0B44566D8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spaceweather.com/" href="http://www.spaceweather.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spaceweather.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spaceweather.com/img/F063069C-C06A-4FC4-81F9-681AB87B3AAF" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD background="images/new_swcom_cntrtb_r1_c3.jpg" class="whatsUpInSpaceText">What's 
            up in Space</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD background="images/new_swcom_cntrtb_r1_c4.jpg"><DIV align="center"><SPAN class="tabEditionDateText"> 
              March 17, 2008              </SPAN></DIV>
          </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="65%" class="myskyAdText"> <B><FONT color="#374552">Where's 
                  Saturn?</FONT></B> Is that a UFO--or the ISS? What's the name 
                  of that star? Get the answers from <A href="http://www.spaceweather.com/ccount.php?linkURL=http://www.meade.com/mysky/index.html">mySKY</A>--a 
                  fun new astronomy helper from Meade.</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><P><FONT size="3"><STRONG><FONT color="#ff0000">ASTEROID FLYBY:</FONT></STRONG></FONT> 
              Massive asteroid <A href="http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1620%20Geographos;orb=1">1620 
              Geographos</A> is flying past Earth today at a distance of 12 million 
              miles. After sunset, point your telescope at <A href="http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Unusual/01620.html">these 
              coordinates</A> to track the strangely <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1620_Geographos">oblong</A> 
              space rock glowing like a 13th magnitude star in the constellation 
              Monoceros (near Orion).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><P><FONT size="3"><STRONG><FONT color="#ff0000">ST. PATRICK'S DAY:</FONT></STRONG></FONT> 
              So the city of Chicago dyed a river green to celebrate <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Day">St. 
              Patrick's Day</A>? That's nothing. Greg Piepol of Rockville, Maryland, 
              offers up to the Leprecauns an entire star:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spaceweather.com/img/85C21F9B-B8BD-41B0-A2EF-3E904F32F354" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><P>"This is today's sun, photographed through my Coronado <A href="http://www.spaceweather.com/ccount.php?linkURL=http://www.coronadofilters.com/Maxscope_90.html">SolarMax90</A> 
              Calcium K telescope and colorized for March 17th," he says. 
              "Tiny sunspot 986 is at the top."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spaceweather.com/img/21875B26-3742-4002-8700-7046BAF0F84E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD background="images/hazard_asts_tabl_r1_c3.jpg" class="nearEarthAsteroidsText" colspan="2">Near-Earth 
            Asteroids </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><FONT size="3">March 
              2008 Earth-asteroid encounters:</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><SPAN class="dailySunTitleText">Coronal Holes:</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spaceweather.com/img/D67CBA21-3B50-4EFE-925F-2A90B187CBE1" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><SPAN class="dailySunTitleText">Current Auroral Oval:</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spaceweather.com/img/6320EB9D-B2AB-4357-895B-506D01E243AA" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><SPAN class="dailySunTitleText">Far side of the Sun:</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spaceweather.com/img/0DE4C0D2-1EB5-4B00-BA16-60866EAAD88C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><B>X-ray Solar Flares</B></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E28B4C5B-7FA6-4922-AC11-6BB0B44566D8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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