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Credit: Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)/ESA/NASA
Caption: the comet NEAT in 2003, meeting up with a coronal mass ejection
(CME) from the Sun.
May 26, 2005
Comet Neat and CME's
* When a coronal mass ejection greeted Comet NEAT, space scientists
called it a coincidence. But in an electric universe such events
deserve a second look.*
The comet NEAT was discovered November 2002 by NASA's Near Earth
Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program. As the comet moved toward
perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun, astronomers were not sure
it would survive. The explosive destruction of Comet Linear
<050520linear.htm> three years earlier, at */nine times/* NEATs
distance from the Sun, underscored the danger to comets from such a
close passage around the Sun.
The Suns glare prevented observers on Earth from viewing NEATs
approach. But the SOHO spacecraft
,
stationed between Earth and the Sun, has an instrument called
Large-Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO), which blocks the Suns
brightest light, permitting the satellite to record the comets dramatic
swing around the Sun.
As NEAT raced through the extended solar atmosphere, a large coronal
mass ejection (CME) exploded from the Sun and appeared to strike the
comet. The comet responded with a kink that propagated down the tail.
A video clip of the event can be seen here
.
(The disk in the center is created by the coronograph as it blocks the
Suns glare). For astronomers, the event illustrated the dynamic
interactions between comets and the solar wind.
Scientists were quick to point out that meeting with ejected material
was a chance encounter. But was it? Though electrical theorists assert
no interpretation of the event at this time, they reject the theoretical
assumptions that prompt mainstream theorists to dismiss out of hand any
possibility that a comet could trigger an eruption from the Sun. If the
Sun is a glow discharge at the center of an electric field, and a comet
carries a strong negative charge together with a vast envelope of
charged particles, the categorical dismissal of mutual interactions is
premature.
In fact, SOHO has recorded several instances of comets plunging into the
solar corona in coincidental association with CMEs. Here
we see two comets grazing the Sun followed by a particularly energetic
blast from a mass ejection. Another instance of two comets grazing the
Sun can be viewed here
.
In a headline story, Twin Comets Race To Death By Fire, June 5, 1998,
ScienceDaily.com reported:
In a spectacular coincidence, a coronal mass ejection (CME) accompanied
by an erupting prominence occurred on the southwest limb of the Sun
within hours after the destruction of the comets. The CME and prominence
were probably unrelated to the comets, being instead the product of
weeks of intense magnetic activity in that region of the Sun.
Perhaps the original source of this story (apparently a science writer
with NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center), paid dearly for his use of the
word probably in the above paragraph. Only an electrical influence
could justify any qualifications to the assertion of a spectacular
coincidence. But the scientific mainstream allows for no electric force
outside the Sun to have any influence on the Suns atmospheric behavior.
SOHO scientists make the point explicit in their discussion of
sungrazing comets and CMEs:
A popular misconception is that sungrazing comets cause solar flares
and CMEs (coronal mass ejections). While it is true that we have
observed bright comets approach the Sun immediately before CME's/flares,
there is absolutely no connection between the two events. The sungrazer
comets -- in fact /all/ comets -- are completely insignificant in size
compared the Sun.
The statement is reasonable if the issue of connection and influence
is decided by relative size. But from an electrical viewpoint the
disregard for the powerful electric force in space is the greatest
single mistake in the theoretical sciences today. How would an electric
Sun respond to the approach of a relatively small but strongly charged
object? Comets typically display a bright coma extending for hundreds of
thousands of miles around the hidden nucleus. They can also entrain an
immense envelope of hydrogen gas. We do not normally see the hydrogen
envelopes of comets because Earths atmosphere absorbs their light. But
spacecraft can detect them and measure them. Electrical theorists
suggest that the ability of larger comets to hold their hydrogen clouds
in place against the solar wind is a good indicator of the comets
powerful charge.
The influence of the comets electrical field is far more significant
than its trivial mass in relation to the Sun. What will occur
electrically if the charge plasma or atmosphere of the comet
penetrates the insulating double layer
<../../2004/arch/040830magnetic.htm> of the Suns plasma sheath? An
analogy might be the effect of a pebble from space penetrating into the
upper atmosphere of the Earth where the intruders plasma trail short
circuits the Earths electric field to cause a high altitude discharge.
The issue has virtually nothing to do with the respective masses of the
Earth and the pebble. The disturbing image of the space shuttle Columbia
<050223columbia.htm> being struck by a discharge that followed its
plasma trail through the upper atmosphere also comes to mind.
Perhaps the observation of Nobel Laureate Hannes Alfvén, the father of
plasma cosmology, can put the issue in context. It was his opinion that
coronal mass ejections are caused by a breakdown or breach of the Suns
double layeran event that provokes an explosive exchange between the
insulated plasma cell of the Sun and the plasma of surrounding space.
For the electric theorists, such questions deserve conscientious
investigation, with attention to the electrical phenomena indicated in
both solar and cometary behavior.
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