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To: Carolyn who wrote (264870)9/2/2008 10:43:57 AM
From: neolib3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 793912
 
No, actually the Sun does this all on its own. In fact, it did it at the end of the last solar cycle as well, way back in 1996 when it went 42 consecutive days without a spot. At that time, the 42 consecutive days were more evenly split between two months, and neither month was itself completely free of spots, so for some reason, many people are excited about the minimum not having straddled one specific month for a 100 years! Wow!

It pays to keep your brain engaged when reading things, especially from certain sources. It is pretty easy to misunderstand "month" for 30 or 31 consecutive days. The particular phase of a solar minimum to our earthly months is of course irrelevant. But you would not know that by lots of nonsense posted on the web.

BTW, the sun has now been spotless for 43 days, so it just nudged the last cycles 42 days. However, nothing unusual.
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