Space Weather, Exoplanet Water
While the last 24 hours of the Earth Facing disc have a couple of bright spots trying to do something, no solar flare of conern or coronal mass ejections (CME) happen. The northern coronal hole is at center disk and the plasma filament below it isn't doing anything of note. The solar wind increased a little and the Planetary K-index is still in the green levels.
Earthquakes and volcanoes of note
Taiwan after-shocks are getting bigger. And the Gulf of Alaska put out another half dozen smaller quakes.
- 6.4 magnitude earthquake near Hualian, Taiwan, Taiwan
- 4.4 magnitude earthquake in Gulf of Alaska
- 4.6 magnitude earthquake near Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands
Space Objects
Just when it looked like we would run out of Near-Earth Objects(NEO) spotted in 2018, we have 2 new ones for today and 1 for tomorrow.
Today’s Launches
- Falcon Heavy • Demo Flight - A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch on its first demonstration flight. The heavy-lift rocket is formed of three Falcon 9 rocket cores strapped together with 27 Merlin 1D engines firing at liftoff. The first Falcon Heavy rocket will attempt to place a Tesla Roadster on an Earth escape trajectory into a heliocentric orbit.
~ source: https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
Other News
- TRAPPIST-1 Planets Probably Rich in Water. We are wasting our time with Mars.
has an article on this too ~ Could TRAPPIST-1 planets have more water than Earth? ~
- Emergent Viscosity: An Alternative for Dark Matter in Galaxies. Moving on from Dark Matter.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| (2018 CL) | 2018-Feb-06 | 0.00602 | 22 m - 48 m |
| (2018 CM) | 2018-Feb-06 | 0.00549 | 7.2 m - 16 m |
| (2018 CC) | 2018-Feb-06 | 0.00126 | 13 m - 28 m |
| (2018 CN) | 2018-Feb-07 | 0.00328 | 14 m - 31 m |
| (2018 BL1) | 2018-Feb-09 | 0.04223 | 55 m - 120 m |
Close Approach Database
Source: https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/