Comet Record, Coronal Holes, Weather
Another calm day on the Earth Facing disc. No sunspots, no solar flares and no plasma filaments doing anything. The solar winds are calm and the Planetary K-index shows this by a barely green chart.
Earthquakes of note
With the big earthquake out of the way yesterday, you would think that would have released enough pressure for today. But, the Earth rumbles on. Iraq got a 5.0 magnitude earthquake and several aftershocks. And a couple of rare quakes in the north Atlantic also happened.
- 5.5 magnitude earthquake near Mandalī, Diyālá, Iraq
- 5.0 magnitude foreshock near Mandalī, Diyālá, Iraq
- 5.4 magnitude earthquake near Mandalī, Diyālá, Iraq
- 5.0 magnitude earthquake on Reykjanes Ridge
- 4.9 magnitude aftershock on Reykjanes Ridge
- 5.1 magnitude earthquake near Hirara, Okinawa, Japan
Space objects
No new items added to the Near-Earth Objects (NEO) database.
Other news
- A Close-up Look at a Rare Underwater Eruption. Maybe it is time to stop looking out in space and study our own planet a little closer.
- Galactic Center: Scientists Take Viewers to the Center of the Milky Way. Cool images courtesy of Chandra.
- New Stellar Streams Confirm ‘Melting Pot’ History of the Galaxy. Everything is too big to know, but let's keep trying with dark matter and energy.
- NASA's Newly Renamed Swift Mission Spies a Comet Slowdown. And then somethings happen on a smaller level that shows we don't know.
- Cold wave in Uttar Pradesh kills over 40 people in past 24 hours; overall death toll in state climbs to 143. In a place that doesn't normally need heating, people are dying from extreme cold weather. What would happen in places that do normally need heating and are restricted to "renewable" energy that can't keep up with demand?
- Japan sees 70 percent chance of La Nina weather pattern lasting into spring
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Space Weather
Source: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index
Asteroid Watch
Average distance between Earth and the moon is about 239,000 miles (385,000 kilometers).
Source: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch/
| Object | Flyby Date | AU distance | Approximate Sixe |
|---|---|---|---|
| (2017 YU3) | 2018-Jan-14 | 0.04676 | 43 m - 95 m |
| 306383 (1993 VD) | 2018-Jan-22 | 0.03680 | 130 m - 300 m |
| (2018 AJ) | 2018-Jan-23 | 0.01186 | 30 m - 68 m |
| (2002 CB19) | 2018-Feb-02 | 0.02686 | 27 m - 59 m |
| 276033 (2002 AJ129) | 2018-Feb-04 | 0.02813 | 480 m - 1.1 km |
Close Approach Database
Source: https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
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