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To: long-gone who wrote (105)	4/7/2000 1:44:00 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 183

SEC Space Weather Advisory sec.noaa.gov Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Environment Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER BULLETIN #00- 2 2000 April 06 at 02:50 p.m. MDT (2000 April 06 2050 UT) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** GEOMAGNETIC STORM BEGINNING ** The ACE spacecraft, located approximately one million miles towards the Sun, detected a fast-moving ejection in the solar wind at approximately 10:00 AM MDT today (1600 UT on April 6). This structure is believed to have been launched from the Sun late on April 4. The Earth's magnetic field responded shortly thereafter, and major storm conditions are now occurring at all latitudes. It is expected that this storm will continue for the next 24-36 hours. Significant impacts on terrestrial systems include some electrical power systems, spacecraft operations, and communications and navigation systems. In terms of the New NOAA Space Weather Scales, this storm may reach category G3 (strong) level. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To: long-gone who wrote (105)	4/7/2000 5:46:00 PM
From: Yogizuna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 183

I'm wondering in the 5/5/2000 grouping of the five planets will have any effect on the stock market, which has been very fragile of late..... Did anything of significance happen to the stock market on 2/2/1962? Of course, not everyone and their grandmother/father was in the market at that time, and the "obsession level" was not anywhere nearly as high as it is these days..... There was another planetary phenomenon that occurred before the crash of 1987 as I recall, and some did in fact blame the infamous crash on that alignment. Yogi

To: long-gone who wrote (105)	4/8/2000 12:44:00 PM
From: Lilian Debray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 183

The Son of the Jupiter Effect? LOL. If you survived 1982, where will you be on 5/5/2000? "The Geophysical Institute has been receiving inquiries about dire events, including earthquakes, that are supposed to plague the earth in 1982 because of something to do with alignment of the planets. This leads us again to comment on the "Jupiter Effect," a name taken from the book published in 1974 by astronomers John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann. While the book was undoubtedly a financial success, it has caused much needless concern and has proven to be a scientific flop. Briefly, the authors proposed the following bizarre chain of events: When the planets are aligned on one side of the sun, the tidal forces create sunspots which create solar flares which create streams of solar particles which enter the earth's upper atmosphere which changes the weather which slows the rate of the earth's rotation which triggers earthquakes. Got it? John Gribbin closes the episode in the July 17, 1980 issue of New Scientist where he retracts his theory, claiming that he was "too clever by half." (By this he explains he means that if he had jiggled the figures a little differently, he could have predicted the Mt. St. Helens eruption.) It is as one of the book's chief critics astronomer Jean Meeus tersely commented in 1975, "The Jupiter Effect does not exist." gi.alaska.edu earthsky.com newage.miningco.com Planetary Groupings and the Millennium: Why Panic? By Jean Meeus Adapted from Sky & Telescope, August 1997 "Above: Hey, relax! There will be no "planetary effects" during the year 2000. The doom and gloom forecast because of a grouping of the planets is no more a concern than your automobile's odometer flipping to a round number. SOME PEOPLE SEEM OBSESSED by groupings or "alignments" of planets. This is especially true as the year 2000 approaches, a pretext for doomsayers to draw attention to certain astronomical events and to claim that these will cause disasters here on Earth. As if the fact that the "round" number 2000 could have some special, physical meaning! The occasion of our calendrical "odometer" flipping to 2000 is simply a consequence of our decimal numbering system. If we used an octal system (base 8), we'd be celebrating the coming of the year 3720. Moreover, the start of the Common Era is just conventional. On January 1, 2000, the Jewish calendar will already read year 5760, while for the Muslim calendar it will be 1420. The growing popular interest in the foreboding approach of 2000 is bolstered by a planetary grouping in early May of that year -- a favorite event cited by the mystically minded." skypub.com skypub.com