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. @teks 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.
~ Ben Davidson (Suspicious0bservers ) at SuspiciousObservers.org
I am not affiliated with Ben Davidson or his work. I am a subscriber to SuspiciousObservers YouTube channel.
- Space Weather News
- Quake Watch
- Earth Changes - mobile app
- STARWATER
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/
yeah...we shouldn't waist our time with mars...
we should go on to Trappist-1.
how much longer would it take to get there do you think?
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We should be focusing on building a Moon based for launching missions to the outer solar system to get materials for building bigger and faster ships.
The Trappist system is 39.46 light years away. With a colony ship moving at just below light speed, we could get there by the 2nd or 3rd generation.
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Alpha Centauri is only 4.367 light years away. It could be the first stop. Well, Proxima Centauri would be the first stop at 4.243 light years and having more planets of value.
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The Alpha Centauri system should be one of the first targets, or any other destination within the range of ten light years. The spectrographs that are being released this year will give more potential candidates soon.
Thank you very much for the mention.
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