... The Electron Pressure Differential between the Sunspot Plume and the Surrounding Region. ... From the dynamical viewpoint, this would suggest a pressure imbalance between the sunspot and the surrounding region. ...
... At this stage of the 11-year sunspot cycle the number of sunspots is expected to be quite small, but instead the Sun has burst into a renewed flurry of magnetic activity, the current giant sunspot being large enough to swallow the Earth many times over. ...
... Observatory's Historic Data Used to Constrain Sunspot Cycle. ... mystery regarding the Sun and its approximately 11-year cycle of sunspot numbers ... a previously unknown maximum in the sunspot numbers to find the missing cycle ...
... Predicting the behavior of a sunspot cycle is fairly reliable once the cycle is well underway (about 3 years after the minimum in sunspot number occurs), but p rior to that time the predictions are less reliable. ...
... From: TerryMosel@aol.com Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 02:25:55 EST Subject: N.E. Sunspot, Lecture, Comet, Columbia Hi all, The Sunspot maximum may be over, but there have been a few giant sunspots lately! ...